PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "117000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is a Leader-Follower Additive Manufacturing (AM) system which controls multiple AM Devices (3D Printers) simultaneously in order to minimize human monitoring and control during the mass manufacture of AM products. This is accomplished by combining individual AM device closed-loop feedback control with the ability for AM devices to communicate feedback loop data to other AM devices. The communication of feedback loop data between AM devices during the mass fabrication of AM components improves AM process reliability and repeatability. Within the system, AM devices are able to assume the roles of Leaders or Followers; Leader AM devices lead the Follower AM devices during the fabrication of multiple AM products. If errors occur during the fabrication of the AM products, individual AM devices are able to create and implement solutions that solve fabrication errors and communicate that data with the other AM devices for present and future AM fabrication efforts.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of mass producing a product from a 3D model using additive manufacturing (AM) comprising the steps of:\n providing a plurality of networked AM devices each capable of building and interactively monitoring deviations from the 3D model; building a portion of the product on at least one AM device; monitoring the product to identify deviations from the 3D model; notifying a PLC of the AM device deviations; determining if the deviations are outside of a predetermined specification; if a deviation is outside the predetermined specification, then identifying the deviation as an \u2018error\u2019, and the current AM device as a Leader AM device; collecting and storing the state of the current AM device; collecting and storing the error information of the current AM device; employing a solution generator which creates a machine code solution; creating an error data set with error info, state info and machine code solution communicating the error data set to other AM devices from the Leader AM device with a request to implement the solution; and implementing at least a portion of the machine code solution on at least one AM device other than the Leader AM device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97561
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15143358', '15619172', '14827956', '15373050', '11201057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3315359838697551
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4722830516786391
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3456106906506435
- Mean Citation Score: 114.9813008
- Max Citation Score: 132.85518000000002
- Similarity Product: 91.19265820552113

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

Dataset: test