PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000470
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["148", "421000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein are variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys and methods of making the variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys. A variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloy is a metal alloy that has areas of differing flexibility (i.e., stiffness, rigidity or elasticity) along a length of the metal alloy when the metal alloy is subjected to a load in use. Also provided herein are methods of making variably flexible (i.e., variably stiff) metal alloys and products including casting a metal alloy and selectively heat treating portions of the metal alloy to achieve predetermined stiffnesses in those portions.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising heat treating at least a second portion of the metal alloy to obtain an increased elastic modulus of the at least second portion, wherein the increased elastic modulus is greater than the intermediate elastic modulus, wherein heat treating at least the second portion of the metal alloy is performed from approximately 400\u00b0 C. to approximately 650\u00b0 C. for between approximately 6 hours and approximately 168 hours.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28846
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13791843', '13596338', '15268915', '13791851', '11288492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7520956609678423
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5272834429463117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7296144391656892
- Mean Citation Score: 172.54562600000003
- Max Citation Score: 185.65535
- Similarity Product: 89.04247706455885

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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