PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000470
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["148", "421000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein are variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys and methods of making the variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys. A variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloy is a metal alloy that has areas of differing flexibility (i.e., stiffness, rigidity or elasticity) along a length of the metal alloy when the metal alloy is subjected to a load in use. Also provided herein are methods of making variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys and products including casting a metal alloy and selectively heat treating portions of the metal alloy to achieve predetermined stiffnesses in those portions.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 5 , further comprising tuning heat treating the metal alloy after the step of heat treating the at least first portion of the metal alloy, wherein the tuning heat treating is performed at a temperature of from approximately 150\u00b0 C. to approximately 400\u00b0 C. for approximately 30 minutes to approximately 168 hours, wherein tuning heat treating the metal alloy comprises creating an omega-phase crystalline structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28846
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13791843', '13596338', '15268915', '13791851', '11288492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7541844437995381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163608332667896
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7304020827462632
- Mean Citation Score: 172.54562600000003
- Max Citation Score: 185.65535
- Similarity Product: 103.083626086089

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

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