PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["264", "401000"]

Abstract:
A system and corresponding method to move a rod of build material in a three-dimensional (3D) printing system uses a pusher. The rod of build material has distal and proximal ends relative to an extrusion head. The distal and proximal ends having distal and proximal end surfaces, respectively. The pusher engages with the rod and applies an axial force to at least a portion of the distal end surface of the rod for at least a portion of a path the rod travels toward the extrusion head. The axial force actuates the rod of build material without alteration, such as by shaving, fracturing, or otherwise deforming the rod of build material.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 19 , wherein the sensing is performed in an open-loop manner as a function of a theoretical commanded location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03333
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15961846', '11751061', '13209660', '10951578', '11674404']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8122954855088367
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5577125139542355
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7868371883533767
- Mean Citation Score: 235.24217400000003
- Max Citation Score: 464.817
- Similarity Product: 306.68317808103563

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

Dataset: test