PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming an article includes: forming a melt pool; exposing the melt pool to an optical beam having at least one beam characteristic; forming a keyhole cavity in the melt pool, the keyhole cavity having at least one keyhole cavity property; and modifying the at least one beam characteristic in response to a change in the keyhole cavity property.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n generating the optical beam in an optical beam delivery device comprising a first length of fiber having a first refractive-index profile (RIP) and a second length of fiber having a second RIP and being coupled to the first length of fiber, and a perturbation device configured to alter a bend radius of the first length of fiber; launching the optical beam into the first length of fiber; and coupling the optical beam into the second length of fiber, wherein modifying of the at least one beam characteristic comprises\n activating the perturbation device to modify one or more beam characteristics of the optical beam in one or more of the first length of fiber, and the second length of fiber, and \n confining at least a portion of the modified one or more beam characteristics of the optical beam within one or more confinement regions of the second length of fiber, \n wherein the first RIP differs from the second RIP.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09375
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15885563', '15607411', '15607410', '15607399', '15882870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8064104353113789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5378396280672104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7795533545869621
- Mean Citation Score: 337.940756
- Max Citation Score: 389.80743
- Similarity Product: 336.9813849042821

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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