PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16076524
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["419", "PCA001"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for fabricating a metal or ceramic component using 3D printing. A 3D printed piece is created that includes a body of the component and a support structure. While the 3D printed piece is created using a single printing material, one or more processing parameters are adjusted while printing a first sacrificial interface region coupling the body of the component to the support structure. The body of the component is separated from the support structure by applying a chemical or electrochemical dissolution process to the 3D printed piece. The adjustment to the one or more processing parameters during printing of the first sacrificial interface region creates a localized area that is less resistant to the chemical or electrochemical dissolution process than the body of the component.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein printing the second sacrificial interface region includes printing the second sacrificial interface region with a larger cross-sectional area than the first sacrificial interface region, and wherein applying the chemical or electrochemical dissolution process to the 3D printed piece causes the body of the component to separate from the support structure at the first sacrificial interface region more quickly than the body of the component separates from the support structure at the second sacrificial interface region due to differences in the cross-sectional area of the first sacrificial interface region and the second sacrificial interface region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22951
- Patent Class: 419.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13071027', '15537885', '11858788', '14123731', '12778588']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5944364751852639
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4848779552103183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5834806231877694
- Mean Citation Score: 150.01593200000005
- Max Citation Score: 160.16537
- Similarity Product: 107.7738202188802

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

Dataset: test