PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870257
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["228", "102000"]

Abstract:
A soldering apparatus and method involves capturing an image of a soldering operation, and storing image data in association with that particular soldering operation. A soldering tool that is used to perform the soldering operation has a position during the soldering operation, and the image data could also be stored in association with data for that particular position. The position data could be for an operation start point and/or an operation endpoint. Associating the image data in this way could help a manufacturer investigate soldering abnormalities that might be reported after a product is shipped to a customer.

Claim (Index 12):
A soldering method comprising:\n performing a soldering operation that comprises using a soldering tool to deposit solder on one or both of a substrate and a component portion on the substrate; capturing an image of the solder that was deposited; and storing image data corresponding to the image that was captured, the image data being stored in a memory, the image data being stored in association with the soldering operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96226
- Patent Class: 228.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14794678', '15340384', '15096035', '14966975', '15333590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7791538534599016
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4650041617941698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7477388842933285
- Mean Citation Score: 133.155875
- Max Citation Score: 149.28418
- Similarity Product: 110.959882058928

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

Dataset: test