PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139959
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["264", "294000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement additive manufacturing techniques that employ different sets of deposition characteristics and/or material formation characteristics during the additive manufacture of an object so as to strategically build up the object. In many embodiments, material used to build up an object is deposited at different deposition rates during the additive manufacture of the object, and the object is thereby strategically built up. In one embodiment, a method of additively manufacturing an object includes: depositing material onto a surface at a first deposition rate so as to define a first region of the object to be additively manufactured; and depositing material onto a surface at a second deposition rate so as to define a second region of the object to be additively manufactured; where the second deposition rate is different from the first deposition rate.

Claim (Index 21):
An additive manufacturing apparatus comprising:\n a manufacturing controller configured to obtain a 3-dimensional model of an object and to map the model of the object by dividing the object into one or more boundary regions, wherein the perimeter of each boundary region is defined by a three-dimensional boundary surface enclosing a contiguous volume region that is to exist within the object to be manufactured, wherein the one or more boundary regions reproduce the entirety of the object; a first additive manufacturing element configured to define the boundary surface of at least one boundary region of the object by depositing material onto a surface through a point deposition process at a first deposition rate; and a second additive manufacturing element configured to fill the associated volume of the at least one boundary region of the object by depositing material within the volume region of the at least one boundary region through one of either a surface deposition element or volume deposition element at a second deposition rate; wherein the second deposition rate is faster than the first deposition rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14332187', '14321046', '14679201', '15188178', '15190480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7865998861609564
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5792125128287583
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7658611488277367
- Mean Citation Score: 223.86009
- Max Citation Score: 412.16406
- Similarity Product: 384.38042785934687

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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