PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160907
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["340", "010100"]

Abstract:
A wireless identification system and method used for identifying medical vials having a metallic crimp includes an RFID tag having a first antenna element located at the crimp so as to be capacitively coupled to the crimp to increase the effective surface area of the RFID antenna, and a second antenna element mounted to the side of the vial between the ends of the labeling mounted on the vial so as to not mask any visually readable information of the labeling. Dielectric adhesive is used in one embodiment to couple the antenna element to the crimp. The invention is particularly useful for small vials. A manufacturing method in which the wireless tag is an integral part of the container is disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for identifying a medical container, the container having a size selected to hold a medical item and having an opening at one end, the system comprising:\n an electrically conductive cap located at the opening of the container, the cap having an inner surface and an outer surface; a wireless identification tag comprising a first antenna element electrically connected to a tag circuitry element, the tag circuitry element including a memory and a processor with the tag circuitry element processor being programmed to receive an interrogation signal through the first antenna element, to access the tag circuitry memory to retrieve a tag identification number, and to transmit the retrieved tag identification number in an identification signal in response to the interrogation signal through the first antenna element, wherein the response identification signal is associated with a medical item held by the medical container to identify the held item; wherein the first antenna element is electrically connected to the outer surface of the cap of the container thereby increasing the effective surface area of the antenna with the metallic closure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15451310', '14142610', '14752837', '15785389', '15627366']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7212439527326525
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5854831367583458
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7076678711352219
- Mean Citation Score: 359.42508200000015
- Max Citation Score: 519.34955
- Similarity Product: 394.7470407450528

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

Dataset: test