PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["425", "375000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for the automated manufacturing of three-dimensional ( 3 D) composite-based objects is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a material feeder, a printer, a powder system, a transfer system, and optionally a fuser. The method comprises inserting a stack of substrate sheets into a material feeder, transferring a sheet of the stack from the material feeder to a printer, depositing fluid on the single sheet while the sheet rests on a printer platen, transferring the sheet from the printer to a powder system, depositing powder onto the single sheet such that the powder adheres to the areas of the sheet onto which the printer has deposited fluid, removing any powder that did not adhere to the sheet, optionally melting the powder on the substrate, and repeating the steps for as many additional sheets as required for making a specified  3 D object.

Claim (Index 42):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising monitoring to ensure there has been no malfunction, that an appropriate amount of powder is deposited, and that the sheets are being processed by the various steps as desired.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27143
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15611320', '15922469', '10782323', '15803199', '15722653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6513808335836501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5459312863672076
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6408358788620058
- Mean Citation Score: 186.4833852
- Max Citation Score: 395.5807
- Similarity Product: 259.53636119539743

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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