PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16172376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["700", "195000"]

Abstract:
A method for automated part probing using a physical machine defining a physical working volume, the method including: generating a virtual model based on a virtual part design received from a user account, the virtual model comprising a virtual part model, based on the virtual part design, virtually fixed to a virtual fixture plate arranged within a virtual working volume representative of the physical working volume; generating a probing routine based on the virtual model; sending the probing routine to the machine; receiving probe outputs from the machine; and validating the virtual model based on the probe outputs.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for automated part manufacture using a physical machine defining a physical working volume, the method comprising:\n automatically selecting a first and second virtual part design from a plurality of virtual part designs based on a manufacturing process optimization, each virtual part design received from a different user account; automatically generating a preliminary virtual model, the preliminary virtual model comprising: a first and second virtual preliminary part precursor based on the first and second virtual part designs, respectively, the first and second virtual part precursors virtually fixed to a virtual fixture plate; the virtual fixture plate arranged within a virtual working volume representative of the physical working volume; sending a probing routine, generated based on the preliminary virtual model, to the machine; receiving probe outputs from the machine for a physical assembly associated with the preliminary virtual model, the probe outputs generated based on the probing routine; validating the preliminary virtual model based on the probe outputs; controlling the machine to execute a machining procedure on the physical assembly in response to validation of the preliminary virtual model; automatically generating a reference virtual model based on the preliminary virtual model and the machining procedure; sending a second probing routine, generated based on the reference virtual model, to the machine; receiving secondary probe outputs from the machine for a modified physical assembly, the modified physical assembly comprising the physical assembly modified by the machining procedure, the secondary probe outputs generated based on the second probing routine; validating the reference virtual model based on the secondary probe outputs; determining a feature parameter of a physical feature of the modified physical assembly, based on the secondary probe outputs; and updating a virtual feature on the reference virtual model, corresponding to the physical feature, with the feature parameter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34783
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15233349', '14807350', '15263213', '15263196', '14517734']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3881336075859587
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4501009454503797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3943303413724008
- Mean Citation Score: 135.36135380000002
- Max Citation Score: 193.30994
- Similarity Product: 189.03028332786084

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

Dataset: test