PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861553
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["264", "406000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides various apparatuses, systems, software, and methods for three-dimensional (3D) printing. The disclosure delineates various optical components of the 3D printing system, their usage, and their optional calibration. The disclosure delineates calibration of one or more components of the 3D printer (e.g., the energy beam).

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:\n a target surface configured to support the three-dimensional object during the printing; an energy source configured to generate an energy beam that transforms a pre-transformed material to a transformed material to print the three-dimensional object, which energy source has a nominal power, wherein the energy source is disposed adjacent to the target surface; and an optical arrangement comprising one or more optical elements, which optical arrangement is operatively coupled with the energy source and configured to direct the energy beam to irradiate a pre-transformed material at or adjacent to the target surface to form a transformed material as part of the three-dimensional object, wherein the one or more optical elements are configured to experience insignificant thermal lensing during formation of at least 1000 cubic centimeters of transformed material, which insignificant thermal lensing comprises at least a 30 second irradiation of the energy beam through the one or more optical elements, with a power density of the energy beam at the nominal power that diminishes by at most about 10 percent relative to the power density at a beginning of the 30 second irradiation, which power density is measured at the target surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74286
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15861544', '15435110', '15435078', '15435120', '15374821']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7558418549945256
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5077441559094177
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7310320850860148
- Mean Citation Score: 210.738272
- Max Citation Score: 264.85294
- Similarity Product: 215.384393070122

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

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