PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["118", "323000"]

Abstract:
A composite film includes a substrate that is not responsive to relative humidity, and also one or more layers of hygromorphic material. The hygromorphic material expands in response to an increase in relative humidity and contracts in response to a decrease in relative humidity. In some cases, the composite film is bi-layer or tri-layer. The composite films are fabricated such that they undergo a desired bending pattern in response to changes in relative humidity. In some cases, these bending patterns are combinations of two bending primitives: a smooth curve and a sharply angled curve. These two primitives are combined to create a variety of shape transformations including 1D linear transformation, 2D surface expansion and contraction, 2.5D texture change and 3D folding. Any type of hygromorphic material may be employed, including living gram positive and gram negative bacterial cells, yeast cells, plant cells, mammalian cells, cell debris, or hydrogel.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising a 3D printer, wherein the 3D printer is configured to apply hygromorphic material to a first side of an object, in such a way that:\n (a) the amount of the hygromorphic material that adheres to the first side varies substantially from region to region of the first side; (b) the hygromorphic material adheres in a first spatial distribution on the first side of the object, which first spatial distribution is the amount of hygromorphic material adhering to the first side as a function of spatial position; and (c) the hygromorphology of the object, after the hygromorphic material is applied to the first side, (A) depends at least in part on the first spatial distribution, and (B) includes changing from a state in which the shape of the object does not include a sharply angled bend to a state in which the shape of the object includes a sharply angled bend.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7766
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14927375', '14790654', '14854937', '13731944', '15456623']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7718577544479093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.526340142887315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7473059932918499
- Mean Citation Score: 160.308673
- Max Citation Score: 351.6896700000001
- Similarity Product: 282.1789350064266

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

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