PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939090
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Additive manufacturing systems and methods for fabricating an article are provided. The additive manufacturing system may include a substrate and a layering device configured to fabricate a first layer of the article on the substrate. The layering device may include an optical beam source configured to generate an optical beam and a variable beam characteristics (VBC) fiber operably coupled with the optical beam source and configured to modify one or more beam characteristics, such as a wavelength, of the optical beam.

Claim (Index 5):
The additive manufacturing system of  claim 4 , wherein the second length of fiber comprises a second refractive index profile and one or more confinement regions, and wherein the second length of fiber is configured to confine the modified optical beam to one of the confinement regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15934959', '15939223', '15939141', '15885633', '15885563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8568198268962837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5303844977191348
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8241762939785688
- Mean Citation Score: 360.982608
- Max Citation Score: 365.83014
- Similarity Product: 277.3947587198853

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

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