PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["264", "308000"]

Abstract:
A printer fabricates an object from a computerized model using a fused filament fabrication process. The shape of an extrusion nozzle may be varied during extrusion to control, e.g., an amount of build material deposited, a shape of extrudate exiting the nozzle, a feature resolution, and the like.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n increasing ductility of at least one portion of a filament of a build material extending along a feed path defined from a spool of the filament to a nozzle, the build material including a metal powder dispersed in a binder system, and a concentration of the metal powder in the build material greater than 50 percent by volume; changing the at least one portion of the filament from a first shape to a second shape; moving the at least one portion of the filament, in the second shape, along the feed path in a direction toward the nozzle; heating the at least one portion of the filament of the build material in the second shape to an extrusion temperature of the build material; and extruding the build material, at the extrusion temperature, through the nozzle and toward a build plate, the build material extruded through the nozzle forming a three-dimensional object on the build plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41026
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16023957', '14876073', '14333881', '14139349', '14848006']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7601235526731044
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5056446825014634
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7346756656559403
- Mean Citation Score: 177.99701000000005
- Max Citation Score: 288.9457700000001
- Similarity Product: 223.3800534005917

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