PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879913
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["165", "080200"]

Abstract:
Methods of using heat sinks include placing a pin fin compliant heat sink on a non-flat surface. The pin fin complaint heat sink has top and bottom plates connected by a plurality of pins arranged vertically between the top and bottom plates. The top and bottom plates are vertically conformed to local deviations of the non-flat surface. The top and bottom plates are laterally conformed to an overall shape of the surface. At least either the top or bottom plate is corrugated.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the top and bottom plates is a corrugated plate that includes interlocking protrusions on opposite sides of the plate and wherein the pin contacts are flexibly connected to one another by the top and bottom plates and wherein the vertical pins comprise a plurality of pin slice layers, each comprising a plurality of pin slices, arranged vertically between the top and bottom plates such that the plurality of pin slices form substantially vertical pins connecting the top and bottom plates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85106
- Patent Class: 165.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14500541', '15243255', '13364907', '15264292', '15280074']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7991116243086471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048437467372708
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7696848365515095
- Mean Citation Score: 177.1858388
- Max Citation Score: 309.421
- Similarity Product: 257.6214524803162

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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