Patent ID: 11915105
Assignee: IMAGARS LLC
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC G  B  C  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for predictive analytics, an apparatus that employs a prediction module, for the purpose of efficiently searching composition space of alloys or composites of interest, and hence for accelerating design or manufacturing of alloys or composites with desired material characteristics, an apparatus comprising of
a database importing module, for ingesting materials or manufacturing data,
an optional data base abstraction module, also referred to as prediction logic, for abstracting the interface between the prediction module and the database,
an optional preprocessing module, for unified comparison of materials or manufacturing data across data sets,
an optional feature selection module, for extracting features that best describe the material or manufacturing data of interest,
a prediction module, also referred to as a prediction engine, for predicting material properties or manufacturing parameters of interest, along with a corresponding composition or composition range, given the materials or manufacturing data ingested, where the prediction engine employs a prediction technique, where the prediction engine combines physics-based models, or analytical models, specific to the alloys or composites of interest, with traditional black-box prediction models, for improved prediction accuracy, and where the prediction technique employed can involve regression analysis, with relatively few unknown model parameters, when limited data is available, but a machine learning predictor, with relatively many unknown model parameters, when sufficiently large data set is available, where the prediction technique is selected such that at least one data point is available for each unknown prediction model parameter, and
an optional reporting and verification module, for reporting, evaluating or verifying the materials properties or manufacturing parameters estimated,, an apparatus presented either in the form of an integrated or an embedded application.