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 1):
A system for manufacturing multiple Additive Manufactured products comprising:\n a plurality of AM devices each adapted to produce a product of a 3D computer model using additive manufacturing (AM), comprising: sensors to sense physical attributes of the AM devices and the product being manufactured; monitoring equipment coupled to the sensors to monitor physical attributes of the product and AM device; comparison equipment coupled to the monitoring equipment to measure deviations between the product being manufactured and the 3D model, and determine which are outside of predetermined specifications, which are identified as \u2018errors\u2019; a communication device adapted to communicate with other AM devices as well as a central system; a solution generation device adapted to analyze errors and generate machine code intended to correct the errors; and a PLC attached to and at least partially controlling the elements above, adapted to communicate a request from one of the plurality of AM devices identified as a \u2018Leader\u2019 AM device to the other AM devices to implement actions and the solutions.

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): 0.332218917979477
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4694584054071095
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3459428667222402
- Mean Citation Score: 114.9813008
- Max Citation Score: 132.85518000000002
- Similarity Product: 93.22016036807658

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

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