PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["427", "596000"]

Abstract:
This invention claims a method for creating patterns of carbon or other elements as deposits on the surface of substrates or as self-supporting filaments in liquid or solid media by the selected application of directed energy. In some embodiments, the deposits or filaments may be of primary interest because of their mechanical properties. In other embodiments, the patterns may have useful physical properties such as being electrically conductive, semi-conductive or electric insulators. Many different deposit precursors, types of directed energy, and adjunct reagents are described. The invention anticipates numerous different embodiments created by selecting various combinations of these elements and sequences of application as a means to build complex devices. In particular, the patterns may constitute the elements of an electric circuit or device (e.g., wires, capacitors, diodes, transistors).

Claim (Index 27):
A method for creating electrically conducting three-dimensional patterns of sp 2 -hybridized carbon within a solid, frozen or viscous (over 10,000 cps) reaction mixture by initiating the polymerization of a deposit precursor (compromising one or more of the following compounds: 1,1-dichloroethene, 1,2-dichloroethene or 1,1,1-trichlorethane) in a pre-determined pattern by controlled application of directed energy (comprising one or more of the following forms of energy: electromagnetic waves, high kinetic energy ions or electrical current) controlled in such a way that they only activate polymerization in a limited and predetermined place in the reaction vessel\n comprising the steps of:\n Preparing a reaction mixture comprising the deposit precursor, solvent, polymerization inhibitors (to scavenge free radicals and ions that would promote bulk polymerization), and proton scavengers (to neutralize HCl produced during decomposition of the polymer); \n providing the reaction mixture, a directed energy emission apparatus, and a reaction vessel; \n placing the reaction mixture into the reaction vessel; \n cooling the reaction mixture in the reaction vessel until the reaction mixture freezes or becomes acceptably viscous (10,000 cps); \n selectively sending a directed energy emission into the reaction mixture in the reaction vessel with the directed energy emission apparatus; such that the directed energy causes polymerization of the deposit precursor at or adjacent to the points of incidence of the directed energy emission within the reaction vessel to produce a three-dimensional deposit; \n separating the unreacted components of the reaction mixture from the polymerized deposit precursor; and \n applying directed energy or general heating to the polymerized deposit precursor to cause its decomposition by elimination of HCl to yield a final three-dimensional deposit of sp 2 -hybridized carbon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65169
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11131981', '09811919', '12991838', '12770857', '14827752']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7720578848222036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4738466226232337
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7422367586023066
- Mean Citation Score: 126.103106
- Max Citation Score: 130.126
- Similarity Product: 90.5917218351364

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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