PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
A method of making a porous three-dimensional object. The method comprises: a) positioning a first layer of particles on a build plate; b) heating the first layer of particles sufficiently to fuse the particles together to form a first build layer having a first porosity; c) exposing the first build layer to a laser beam to form one or more pores, the exposed first build layer having a first modified porosity, the laser beam being emitted from an optical fiber; d) adjusting one or more beam characteristics of the laser beam prior to or during the exposing of the first build layer, the adjusting of the laser beam occurring prior to the laser beam being emitted from the optical fiber; e) positioning an additional layer of particles on the exposed first build layer; f) heating the additional layer of particles sufficiently to fuse the particles together to form a second build layer having a second porosity; g) exposing the second build layer to the laser beam to form one or more pores, the exposed second build layer having a second modified porosity, the laser beam being emitted from the optical fiber; h) adjusting one or more beam characteristics of the laser beam after fusing the particles to form the second build layer and prior to or during the exposing of the second build layer, the adjusting of the laser beam occurring prior to the laser beam being emitted from the optical fiber, and i) repeating e), f), optionally g) and optionally h) to form a three-dimensional object.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein adjusting the one or more beam characteristics of the laser beam comprises adjusting one or more of a beam diameter, divergence distribution, beam parameter product (BPP), intensity distribution, luminance, M2 value, numerical aperture (NA), optical intensity, power density, radial beam position, radiance or spot size, or any combination thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.37879
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15882870', '15607399', '15607411', '15607410', '13605354']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8087065572195544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5557418790901147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7834100894066105
- Mean Citation Score: 313.820692
- Max Citation Score: 425.5248
- Similarity Product: 376.55292085533137

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

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