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 5):
A system for monitoring cleaning efforts of care givers using stethoscopes, said system comprising:\n a plurality of cleaning stations disposed at different locations throughout a facility, with each cleaning station including a housing and a 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 operative to identify an individual stethoscope in a group of stethoscopes; a far field antenna operably associated with each cleaning station, with said far field antenna being designed and configured to detect, develop and send a signal each time the identification apparatus associated with a particular stethoscope is disposed within a predetermined radius of a cleaning station; a near field antenna operably associated with each cleaning station, with said near field antenna being designed and configured to detect, develop and send a signal each time the identification apparatus operably associated with a particular stethoscope is presented to a cleaning apparatus of one of cleaning stations to effect a cleaning event; and an analysis unit configured to compute data and signals from the near field and far field antennas of each cleaning station and calculate a duration of each cleaning event that has happened to an identified stethoscope at any of said cleaning stations and determine the cleanliness level of each stethoscope having the identification apparatus attached thereto partly as a function of the number of cleaning events for each identified stethoscope at one or more of said cleaning stations compared against a fixed value.

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): 0.7819624068376787
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6274213264713668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7665082988010475
- Mean Citation Score: 255.473412
- Max Citation Score: 568.4945
- Similarity Product: 535.7058997371794

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

Dataset: test