PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052488
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["219", "121610"]

Abstract:
This disclosure describes various methods and apparatus for characterizing an additive manufacturing process. A method for characterizing the additive manufacturing process can include generating scans of an energy source across a build plane; measuring an amount of energy radiated from the build plane during each of the scans using an optical sensor; determining an area of the build plane traversed during the scans; determining a thermal energy density for the area of the build plane traversed by the scans based upon the amount of energy radiated and the area of the build plane traversed by the scans; mapping the thermal energy density to one or more location of the build plane; determining that the thermal energy density is characterized by a density outside a range of density values; and thereafter, adjusting subsequent scans of the energy source across or proximate the one or more locations of the build plane.

Claim (Index 13):
The additive manufacturing method of  claim 10 , determining a grid region including the plurality of scans comprises:\n receiving energy source drive signal data indicating a path of the energy source across the build plane; and defining a location, shape and size of the grid region based upon the energy source drive signal data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46875
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14995183', '14832691', '15714871', '15109351', '15282822']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8321049379948852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5008838220821917
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7989828264036158
- Mean Citation Score: 215.25642
- Max Citation Score: 237.72417
- Similarity Product: 160.0962616693836

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