PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16437696
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["700", "098000"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing pre-formed, customized, ceramic, labial/lingual orthodontic clear aligner attachments (CCAA) by additive manufacturing (AM) may comprise measuring dentition data of a profile of teeth of a patient, based on the dentition data, creating a three dimensional computer-assisted design (3D CAD) model of the patient's teeth using reverse engineering, and saving the 3D CAD model, designing a 3D CAD structure model for one or more CCAA on various parts of each tooth, importing data related to the 3D CAD CCAA structure model into an AM machine, directly producing the CCAA in the ceramic slurry-based AM machine by layer manufacturing, enabling the provider to deliver patient-specific CCAA's by an indirect bonding method to the patient's teeth to improve the efficacy and retention of the clear aligners.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein directly producing the CCAA by layer manufacturing further comprises:\n in an apparatus comprising: a vat with an at least partially transparently or translucently formed horizontal bottom, into which light polymerizable material can be filled, a horizontal build platform adapted to be held at a settable height above the vat bottom, an exposure unit adapted to be controlled for position selective exposure of a surface on the build platform with an intensity pattern with predetermined geometry, comprising a light source refined by micromirrors to more precisely control curing, a control unit adapted for polymerizing in successive exposure steps layers lying one above the other on the build platform; controlling the exposure unit so as to selectively expose a photo-reactive slurry in the vat; adjusting, after each exposure for a layer, a relative position of the build platform to the vat bottom; and building up the CCAA successively in the desired form, resulting from the sequence of the layer geometries.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15041895', '12918692', '10926462', '11871487', '15062043']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4165065623004194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5372082691031826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4285767329806957
- Mean Citation Score: 253.096526
- Max Citation Score: 395.31012
- Similarity Product: 379.7532871947813

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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