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 12):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the ceramic slurry-based AM machine comprises:\n a vat adapted to hold the CCAA during manufacturing; 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 horizontal build platform with an intensity pattern with predetermined geometry; a control unit, adapted to receive the 3D CAD CCAA structure model and, using the 3D CAD CCAA structure model to: polymerize in successive exposure steps layers lying one above the other on the build platform, respectively with predetermined geometry, by controlling the exposure unit, and to adjust, after each exposure step for a layer, a relative position of the build platform to the vat bottom, to build up the object successively in the desired form, which results 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: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15041895', '12918692', '10926462', '11871487', '15062043']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4466893061132298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5382885595674263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4558492314586495
- Mean Citation Score: 253.096526
- Max Citation Score: 395.31012
- Similarity Product: 353.40931831361536

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

Dataset: test