PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["264", "401000"]

Abstract:
A system and corresponding method to move a rod of build material in a three-dimensional (3D) printing system uses a pusher. The rod of build material has distal and proximal ends relative to an extrusion head. The distal and proximal ends having distal and proximal end surfaces, respectively. The pusher engages with the rod and applies an axial force to at least a portion of the distal end surface of the rod for at least a portion of a path the rod travels toward the extrusion head. The axial force actuates the rod of build material without alteration, such as by shaving, fracturing, or otherwise deforming the rod of build material.

Claim (Index 28):
The method of  claim 26 , wherein the pusher includes a traveling component and a pushing component and wherein the method further comprises:\n loading the rod of build material into a guide channel, the guide channel defining at least one slot; driving an actuating component coupled to the traveling component; traversing the actuating component with the traveling component in a first direction away from the extrusion head in response to the driving; and traversing a given slot of the at least one slot with the pushing component in a second direction toward the extrusion head to apply the axial force in response to the traversing of the actuating component in the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03333
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15961846', '11751061', '13209660', '10951578', '11674404']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8116118285975636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5601088627259919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7864615320104065
- Mean Citation Score: 235.24217400000003
- Max Citation Score: 464.817
- Similarity Product: 322.33237894856927

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

Dataset: test