PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861544
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "118000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides various apparatuses, systems, software, and methods for three-dimensional (3D) printing. The disclosure delineates various optical components of the 3D printing system, their usage, and their optional calibration. The disclosure delineates calibration of one or more components of the 3D printer (e.g., the energy beam).

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for detecting a three-dimensional object comprising:\n (a) a platform configured to support a material bed, which material bed comprises an exposed surface having an average planarity and an average optical characteristic, which material bed comprises a pre-transformed material that is at least 50 percent diffusive relative to its total reflection, and a transformed material that is at least 80 percent specular relative to its total reflection; (b) an energy source configured to generate an energy beam, which energy beam is operable to transform a pre-transformed material to the transformed material as part of the three-dimensional object, which three-dimensional object is disposed in the material bed, wherein the three-dimensional object causes at least a portion of the exposed surface to deviate from (I) the average planarity and/or (II) the average optical characteristic, wherein the energy source is disposed adjacent to the platform; (c) a radiation source configured to generate a structured radiation for projection onto the exposed surface to form a detectable image, wherein the radiation source is disposed adjacent to the energy source; and (d) a detector configured to detect any deviation within the detectable image, which deviation is indicative of (i) a composition of the three-dimensional object, (ii) a position of the three-dimensional object, (iii) a shape of the three-dimensional object, (iv) an average planarity of the exposed surface, or (v) any combination of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv), wherein the detector is disposed adjacent to the radiation source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74286
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15435120', '15435110', '15435078', '15374616', '15374821']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3738105255704232
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4636839391404091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3827978669274218
- Mean Citation Score: 190.536876
- Max Citation Score: 207.52016
- Similarity Product: 174.0562487963295

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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