PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["700", "098000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system and a method for optimizing printing parameters, such as slicing parameters and tool path instructions, for additive manufacturing. The present invention comprises a property analysis module that predicts and analyses properties of a filament object model, representing a constructed 3D object. The filament object model is generated based on the tool path instructions and user specified object properties. Analysis includes comparing the predicted filament object model properties with the user specified property requirements; and further modifying the printing parameters in order to meet the user specified property requirements.

Claim (Index 23):
A method for optimizing an additive manufacturing process for generating a three-dimensional (3D) object using a 3D printer, comprising:\n (a) providing a first set of printing instructions generated based at least in part on (i) a model of said 3D object in computer memory and (ii) a first set of one or more printing parameters; (b) using said first set of printing instructions or said first set of one or more printing parameters to compute an object model corresponding to said 3D object; (c) identifying a mismatch between (i) said object model and (ii) at least one property requirement of said 3D object; (d) upon identifying said mismatch in (c), generating a second set of printing instructions based at least in part on (i) said model of said 3D object in computer memory and (ii) a second set of one or more printing parameters, which second set of one or more printing parameters is different than said first set of one or more printing parameters; and (e) transmitting said second set of printing instructions, or a third set of printing instructions for which there is no mismatch between a computed object model and said at least one property requirement, for printing said 3D object with said 3D printer, wherein (a)-(d) are performed prior to printing said 3D object with said 3D printer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80702
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14623471', '14621205', '15432693', '14869847', '14217854']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4283452431835319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5328868592780841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4387994047929872
- Mean Citation Score: 251.434668
- Max Citation Score: 384.43564
- Similarity Product: 315.3438874174404

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

Dataset: test