PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000470
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["148", "421000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein are variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys and methods of making the variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys. A variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloy is a metal alloy that has areas of differing flexibility (i.e., stiffness, rigidity or elasticity) along a length of the metal alloy when the metal alloy is subjected to a load in use. Also provided herein are methods of making variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys and products including casting a metal alloy and selectively heat treating portions of the metal alloy to achieve predetermined stiffnesses in those portions.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising heat treating the metal alloy to strengthen the metal alloy before the step of heat treating at least a first portion of the metal alloy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28846
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13791843', '13596338', '15268915', '13791851', '11288492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.756056241311481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5065059373581513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.731101210916148
- Mean Citation Score: 172.54562600000003
- Max Citation Score: 185.65535
- Similarity Product: 115.73460769253072

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

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