PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179287
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "568100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for monitoring drug-regimen compliance is disclosed. Systems in accordance with the present invention enable automatic monitoring of the state of medicine content of a blister card. Each tablet location on the blister card is operatively coupled with a different sensor that detects whether the tablet location is occupied and/or a dispensing event at a tablet location. In some embodiments, capacitive sensing is employed, where the capacitance of each sensor is based on the physical state of a dispensing region of the lidding film of the blister pack, which is located at the tablet location being monitored. Alternative sensing approaches are based on optical, acoustic, and tactile sensors that interrogate either the dispensing region at each tablet location or the tablets themselves to determine whether tablets have been dispensed. The sensors interface with a mobile app that provides the user instructions to help improve drug-regimen compliance.

Claim (Index 37):
The system of  claim 36 , wherein the system is further operative for monitoring the state of a second blister card, the second blister card including a second forming film, a second lidding film, and a second plurality of tablets that are arranged in a second arrangement, and wherein each tablet of the second plurality thereof is contained in a different reservoir of a second plurality of reservoirs defined by the second forming film and second lidding film, and further wherein the system further comprises:\n a second detection module comprising a second plurality of sensors arranged in the second arrangement, wherein each sensor of the second plurality thereof is operative for providing an electrical signal of a second plurality thereof such that each electrical signal of the second plurality thereof is based on the physical state of a different dispensing region of a second plurality of dispensing regions of the second lidding film; wherein the electronics module is further operative for providing a second output signal based on the second plurality of electrical signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79775
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15223779', '16100430', '16156603', '14879874', '15170121']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7271068733089419
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5817527319664769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7125714591746954
- Mean Citation Score: 383.630132
- Max Citation Score: 551.76624
- Similarity Product: 364.3814112646008

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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