PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["134", "05600R"]

Abstract:
A system for monitoring cleaning efforts of care givers using stethoscopes including one or more stations capable of cleaning a head portion of a stethoscope presented thereto. The system includes an identification apparatus operably associated with each of a plurality of stethoscopes. The identification apparatus serves to identify a particular stethoscope and, thus, a particular care provider. A mechanism for detecting and signaling each time a particular stethoscope comes within predetermined radius of a cleaning station forms part of the system. Another mechanism for detecting and signaling each time a particular stethoscope is presented to a station to have a cleaning event performed thereon also forms part of the system. An analysis unit is operably connected to each detecting mechanism and is configured for calculating the cleanliness level of each stethoscope. A method for monitoring cleaning efforts of care providers using stethoscopes is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for monitoring cleaning efforts of care givers using stethoscopes, said system comprising:\n one or more cleaning stations, with each station including a housing and cleaning apparatus disposed within said housing, with said cleaning apparatus being structured to clean a head portion of a stethoscope presented thereto; an identification apparatus operably associated with each of a plurality of stethoscopes for identifying each particular stethoscope; a first apparatus for detecting, developing and sending a signal each time the identification apparatus operably associated with a particular stethoscope is disposed within a predetermined radius of a cleaning station; a second apparatus for detecting, developing and sending a signal each time the identification apparatus operably associated with a particular stethoscope is presented to a cleaning apparatus with one of said cleaning stations to effect a cleaning event; a networked database system integrated with each cleaning station, with said database system including an analysis unit operably responsive to the signals received from the first apparatus an the second apparatus for calculating the cleanliness level of each particular stethoscope having the identification apparatus operably associated therewith;

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13889
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14868749', '12660024', '15825484', '13923487', '12910086']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7828586906246712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6242511779050837
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7669979393527124
- Mean Citation Score: 255.473412
- Max Citation Score: 568.4945
- Similarity Product: 523.1075908391774

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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