PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941911
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "106000"]

Abstract:
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for analysis and characterization of manufacturing information such as process trees or genealogies using graph theory. More specifically, using graph theory to analyze manufacturing information of a manufacturing operation allows for deep analysis of relationships between batches or units in a process tree and their closeness or distance, to identify clusters associated with specific quality characteristics or problems, to identify common antecedents of specifically labeled batches (e.g., problem batches), and/or to detect overall desirable or undesirable characteristics of the process tree (e.g., centrality, etc.).

Claim (Index 30):
A computer system for predicting characteristics of unmeasured batches in a manufacturing operation, the computer system comprising:\n a processor; a data bus coupled to the processor; and a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code associated with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for: identifying manufacturing units of a manufacturing operation;\n characterizing the manufacturing units as nodes associated with a manufacturing operation graph representation; \n characterizing at least one of an input material, a supplier, a part, or another input associated with the manufacturing operation as nodes associated with the manufacturing operation graph representation; \n characterizing manufacturing steps associated with the manufacturing operation as connections associated with the manufacturing operation graph representation; \n generating the manufacturing operation graph representation using the characterized nodes and connections; \n measuring a characteristic of a batch associated with the manufacturing operation; identifying connections between the measured batch and an unmeasured batch associated with the manufacturing operation; computing, based on the identified connections associated with the manufacturing operation graph representation, a degree of connectedness between the measured batch and the unmeasured batch; and predicting, based on the degree of connectedness, a characteristic of the unmeasured batch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66154
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14690600', '12643159', '15683169', '15706115', '15611026']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3380378294283631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.517448083660985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3559788548516253
- Mean Citation Score: 171.757076
- Max Citation Score: 327.2071
- Similarity Product: 274.33429630599016

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

Dataset: test