PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming an article includes providing a material having a first material property; forming a melt pool by exposing the material to an optical beam having at least one beam characteristic, wherein the melt pool has at least one melt pool property determinative of a second material property of the material; and modifying the at least one beam characteristic in response to a change in the melt pool property.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , further comprising providing the signal to a processor, wherein the processor is in communication with the sensor and with a beam delivery device, wherein the processor is configured to access a memory that stores data and instructions, and wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions comprise:\n retrieving a stored value from the data stored by the memory, the stored value corresponding to a known property of a melt pool; converting the signal generated by the sensor to a signature value corresponding to the melt pool property; calculating a difference between the stored value and the signature value; and modifying the at least one beam characteristic when the difference is greater than a predetermined threshold value, wherein the modifying of the at least one beam characteristic comprises\n activating the perturbation device to modify one or more beam characteristics of the optical beam in one or more of the first length of fiber and the second length of fiber, or in the first and second lengths of fibers, and \n confining at least a portion of the modified one or more beam characteristics of the optical beam within one or more confinement regions of the second length of fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97368
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15885633', '15607411', '15607410', '15607399', '15882292']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8178600335916111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5521193835296168
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7912859685854117
- Mean Citation Score: 378.77114
- Max Citation Score: 441.76974
- Similarity Product: 334.92161129309886

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

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