PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["219", "121440"]

Abstract:
A plasma computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting machine is controlled by a computer s. In an embodiment, the computer executes a CNC program to control movement of a plasma torch to cut parts from a workpiece while a spectrometer determines emissions spectra of light emitted in a brief time window as the torch begins to cut the workpiece. The spectrometer cooperates with the computer to analyze the metal as it is being cut by the CNC cutting machine and determine a composition. In embodiments, the composition is compared to an expected composition and saved in a database with identifying information; in a particular embodiment the database is queried to provide identifying information of metal having similar composition to the workpiece.

Claim (Index 1):
A metal analyzing plasma CNC cutting machine, comprising:\n a plasma cutting torch controllable to cut a workpiece with a plasma arc; a lens positioned and configured to capture light from the plasma arc; a spectrometer coupled to receive the captured light from the lens through an optical fiber path and adapted to determine spectral data of the light, the spectrometer adapted to obtain spectra of light over at least the range 290-400 nanometers within a narrow time window as cutting begins; at least one computer having a processor and memory storing spectral analysis software that includes machine readable instructions executable by the processor to analyze the spectral data and generate a determined composition indicative of a composition of the workpiece.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91045
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490088', '12341731', '13248949', '15345208', '12557920']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8437823298801651
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5800987935990292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8174139762520515
- Mean Citation Score: 258.886908
- Max Citation Score: 438.3711
- Similarity Product: 386.0022490720153

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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