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 17):
The system of  claim 16 , further comprising a central system coupled to all AM devices and adapted to monitor and store their performance, comparisons, deviations from the 3D model and state information;\n wherein the central system includes a solution generator that can analyze and determine short term manufacturing improvements in an output variable based upon past input variables chosen; wherein the solution generator includes a short-term device which corrects errors in the current product being manufactured; and a long-term device which corrects errors which may occur across multiple AM devices and products.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97561
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15143358', '15619172', '14827956', '15373050', '11201057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3306512769779576
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4759497652507212
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3451811258052339
- Mean Citation Score: 114.9813008
- Max Citation Score: 132.85518000000002
- Similarity Product: 88.56268689971925

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

Dataset: test