PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16278653
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["235", "385000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for monitoring the inventory of a medical storage container such as a tray that has a required inventory of medical articles. An enclosure is used to isolate, scan, and take an inventory of the tray or other container of medical articles. The tray and each of the medical articles in the tray have RFID tags. The enclosure having a size differing from the size needed for a resonant frequency at the RFID frequency of operation of the tags. A probe is used to create a robust electromagnetic field standing wave of constructive interference in the enclosure and a program compares the scanned present inventory of the tray to the required inventory database and indicates any differences. Expired and recalled articles and substitutes for recalled articles are identified.

Claim (Index 1):
A medical storage container re-supply system for reading a data carrier that is attached to a medical storage container and a data carrier attached to a medical article located in the storage container to manage the inventory of the storage container, the data carrier being responsive to electromagnetic energy (EM) of a frequency f 1  in response to which the data carrier provides identification data, the system comprising:\n a metallic enclosure having an internal storage area, the metallic enclosure further having electrically conductive walls that completely surround the internal storage area and any medical article with associated data carrier placed therein to establish a Faraday cage, the enclosure having a natural frequency of resonance f 2  which is different from a frequency f 1  and to which a data carrier that is responsive to frequency f 1  is not operationally responsive; \n a probe disposed at a metallic wall of the metallic enclosure within the metallic enclosure, the probe configured to inject electromagnetic energy of a frequency f 1  into the metallic enclosure, wherein the position of the probe in relation to the metallic walls of the metallic enclosure is selected so that reflected EM of frequency f 1  within the metallic enclosure is in phase at the probe position to thereby optimize power transfer at frequency f 1  into the enclosure; \n an active impedance matching circuit coupled to the probe and configured to actively more closely match impedance of the probe to impedance of the metallic enclosure at frequency f 1 ; \n a medical storage container having a data carrier identifying the container, the container being located within the internal storage area of the metallic enclosure and containing a medical article with an associated data carrier identifying that medical article, both data carriers being responsive to EM at frequency f 1  but not operationally responsive to frequency f 2 ; \n a receiving antenna disposed within the metallic enclosure and configured to receive the identification data provided by the data carriers; \n a predetermined required inventory list of medical articles for the storage container; \n a non-volatile memory on which is stored the predetermined required inventory list of the storage container; \n a processor programmed to receive the identification data of the storage container and the identification data of the article in the storage container, locate the predetermined required storage container inventory list in the memory through the identification of the storage container, locate the details of the medical article identified in the storage container in the memory through the identification data of the medical article, and compare the details of the medical article against the required inventory list of the storage container to manage the inventory of the container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98571
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14214284', '15838310', '14943010', '14853944', '14210287']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7414542457888625
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6260301983003635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7299118410400126
- Mean Citation Score: 546.0411660000002
- Max Citation Score: 590.0622599999998
- Similarity Product: 580.9359850768767

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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