PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909406
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["428", "687000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing methods, apparatuses, systems and/or software to form one or more three-dimensional objects, some of which may be complex. The three-dimensional objects may be formed by three-dimensional printing using one or more methodologies. In some embodiments, the three-dimensional object may comprise an overhang portion, such as a cavity ceiling, with diminished deformation and/or auxiliary support structures.

Claim (Index 1):
A three-dimensional object, comprising:\n a plurality of layers of hard material stacked layerwise and bonded together to form a shape of the three-dimensional object, wherein a layer of the plurality of layers defines a layering plane, which plurality of layers comprises:\n a first section comprising a first microstructure associated with being formed at a first solidification rate; and \n a second section is at least a portion of an overhang comprising: (i) a second microstructure associated with being formed at a second solidification rate that is different from the first solidification rate, and (ii) an exterior surface corresponding to at least a fraction of an exterior surface of the three-dimensional object, \n wherein an overhang vector at a point on the exterior surface of the second section is normal to a surface at the point in a direction towards an interior of the overhang, \n wherein a stacking vector corresponds to a stacking direction of the plurality of layers, which stacking vector is normal to the layering plane, \n wherein the overhang vector has a positive projection onto the stacking vector, \n wherein the stacking direction of the plurality of layers is indicative from (1) any directional melt pool that is included in the plurality of layers, (2) a direction opposite from any auxiliary supports or auxiliary support marks, (3) a direction of a surface comprising hatch decomposition marking, (4) any asymmetric surface roughness, or (5) any directionality in grain orientation, indicative of print orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43137
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15909826', '15909809', '15909784', '15435078', '15893523']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8880876766216398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5668584413295065
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8559647530924265
- Mean Citation Score: 356.950368
- Max Citation Score: 454.7487
- Similarity Product: 379.870169007647

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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