PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989458
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "005000"]

Abstract:
In some examples, a printer includes neighboring nozzle arrays extending across a print zone, each nozzle array of the neighboring nozzle arrays extending along an axis and comprising a first section of nozzles and a second section of nozzles, wherein the second sections of the neighboring nozzle arrays overlap defining an overlap region and the first sections of the neighboring nozzle arrays define non-overlap regions. A controller is to cause printing of a test pattern using the neighboring nozzle arrays, the test pattern comprising a first pattern printed by the second sections of the neighboring nozzle arrays in the overlap region, and a reference pattern printed by a first section of the first sections of the neighboring nozzle arrays in a non-overlap region of the non-overlap regions, receive detected characteristics of the printed test pattern, compare the characteristics of the printed test pattern in the overlap region and in the non-overlap region, and derive alignment information based on the comparing.

Claim (Index 10):
The printer of  claim 1 , wherein the first pattern comprises a group of spaced blocks printed in a row extending perpendicularly to the axis, wherein each block of the group of spaced blocks has a height in a direction perpendicular to the axis and which corresponds to an expected maximum misalignment of the neighboring nozzle arrays in the direction, and wherein the distance between the blocks equals the height of each of the blocks, and wherein the group of spaced blocks printed by the second sections of the neighboring nozzle arrays in the overlap region are offset by half a block height relative to one other in the direction perpendicular to the axis when the neighboring nozzle arrays are in a nominal position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88136
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15544374', '15522139', '15546226', '13247309', '12635788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7641671954391115
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5347948754646794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7412299634416682
- Mean Citation Score: 239.88657
- Max Citation Score: 378.62854
- Similarity Product: 348.9222557629728

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