PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "117000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is a Leader-Follower Additive Manufacturing (AM) system which controls multiple AM Devices (3D Printers) simultaneously in order to minimize human monitoring and control during the mass manufacture of AM products. This is accomplished by combining individual AM device closed-loop feedback control with the ability for AM devices to communicate feedback loop data to other AM devices. The communication of feedback loop data between AM devices during the mass fabrication of AM components improves AM process reliability and repeatability. Within the system, AM devices are able to assume the roles of Leaders or Followers; Leader AM devices lead the Follower AM devices during the fabrication of multiple AM products. If errors occur during the fabrication of the AM products, individual AM devices are able to create and implement solutions that solve fabrication errors and communicate that data with the other AM devices for present and future AM fabrication efforts.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14  wherein the step of implementing at least a portion of the solution, comprises the steps of:\n receiving by at least one AM device, the error data set, solution and state information from the Leader AM device; \n determining if the AM device is a Slave; \n if the AM device is determined to be a Slave, then implementing the solution and ending the process; \n if the AM device is determined not to be a Slave, then completing the following steps; \n collecting state information from the current AM device and comparing the state received from the Leader AM device to the state of the current AM device to determine a state difference; \n if the state difference is greater than an upper predetermined threshold, then not implementing the solution; \n if the state difference is less than a lower predetermined threshold, then implementing the solution; \n if the state difference is at least equal to the lower threshold but not more than the upper predetermined upper threshold, then, \n modifying the solution, and \n implementing the modified solution on the current AM device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97561
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15143358', '15619172', '14827956', '15373050', '11201057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3520092235745242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5001887131544058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3668271725325123
- Mean Citation Score: 114.9813008
- Max Citation Score: 132.85518000000002
- Similarity Product: 72.85404103055836

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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