PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059496
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["264", "477000"]

Abstract:
3-D printing transfers build material and support from an intermediate transfer belt (ITB) to a platen. The build material is the same as the support material, except that the build material includes a photoinitiator and the support material does not. The platen moves to make contact with the ITB, and the ITB transfers successive layers of build material and support material each time the platen contacts the ITB. The platen and a portion of the ITB that is adjacent the platen are heated prior to the platen contacting the ITB, and the same is exposed so as to crosslink polymers of build material, without crosslinking polymers of support material. The polymers of build material being crosslinked and the polymers of support material not being crosslinked makes the support material selectively soluble in a solvent.

Claim (Index 15):
A three-dimensional (3-D) printing method comprising:\n transferring a first material to an intermediate transfer belt (ITB); transferring a second material to said ITB, said first material is the same as said second material except said first material includes a photoinitiator and said second material does not include said photoinitiator; moving a platen relative to said ITB to make contact with said ITB at a heated transfuse nip, said ITB transferring successive layers of said first material and said second material to said platen each time said platen contacts said ITB; heating said layers of said first material and said second material on said platen after said layers of said first material and said second material are transferred by said transfuse nip; exposing said first material and said second material on said platen using a light after each time said platen contacts said ITB to crosslink polymers of said first material without crosslinking polymers of said second material; and applying solvent to said 3-D object using a rinsing station to dissolve only said second material and to leave said first material unaffected, said polymers of said first material being crosslinked and said polymers of said second material not being crosslinked makes said second material selectively soluble in said solvent relative to said build material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41667
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15152631', '15147971', '15098825', '15152659', '15173777']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7928480279314948
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5969283497482429
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7732560601131696
- Mean Citation Score: 393.915262
- Max Citation Score: 513.8477
- Similarity Product: 466.190677543056

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

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