PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878167
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["065", "029110"]

Abstract:
In illustrative implementations of this invention, a crucible kiln heats glass such that the glass becomes or remains molten. A nozzle extrudes the molten glass while one or more actuators actuate movements of the nozzle, a build platform or both. A computer controls these movements such that the extruded molten glass is selectively deposited to form a 3D glass object. The selective deposition of molten glass occurs inside an annealing kiln. The annealing kiln anneals the glass after it is extruded. In some cases, the actuators actuate the crucible kiln and nozzle to move in horizontal x, y directions and actuate the build platform to move in a z-direction. In some cases, fluid flows through a cavity or tubes adjacent to the nozzle tip, in order to cool the nozzle tip and thereby reduce the amount of glass that sticks to the nozzle tip.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein:\n (a) a first actuator, out of the set of actuators, is configured to actuate the kiln and the nozzle to move along a horizontal axis; (b) a second actuator, out of the set of actuators, is configured to actuate the build platform to rotate; and (c) a third actuator, out of the set of actuators, is configured to actuate the build platform to move along a vertical axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06579
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15365577', '15275849', '14575336', '14848006', '11878625']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7233942187706736
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5680622110989626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7078610180035025
- Mean Citation Score: 206.916792
- Max Citation Score: 415.3454
- Similarity Product: 393.8505063155652

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

Dataset: test