Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US Patent 10445684, I will perform a search in the USPTO database for the patent and examine the "Cited By" references. The "Cited By" section typically lists patents and publications that the examiner considered relevant prior art during the prosecution of the patent application.

Given that the current date is April 26, 2026, I will use the USPTO's Patent Public Search tool to access this information.

Upon accessing US Patent 10445684 on the USPTO Patent Public Search portal, I would typically navigate to the "Citations" or "References Cited" section to find the prior art. Since I cannot directly interact with a live database, I will describe the process and the type of information that would be extracted.

For each patent citation listed under "References Cited" in US10445684, I would collect the following:

• Full Citation: This would include the patent number, issue date (or publication date for applications), and the inventor(s)/assignee.
• Publication/Filing Date: The earliest relevant date for the prior art reference.
• Brief Description: A concise summary of the prior art's subject matter, focusing on how it relates to the claims of US10445684. This would involve reviewing the abstract and potentially key figures or paragraphs of the cited patent.
• Which claim(s) it potentially anticipates under 35 U.S.C. § 102: This requires an analysis of the elements of each independent claim of US10445684 against the disclosures of the prior art. Anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102 means that every element of the claimed invention is found, either explicitly or inherently, in a single prior art reference.

Without direct access to the USPTO database to pull the "References Cited" section for US10445684, I cannot provide the specific prior art details. However, the process described above is the standard methodology for this task.