PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["347", "042000"]

Abstract:
A method of printing is provided where printing is using a first printing unit having redundant nozzles. Then, the method may include stopping the printing with the first printing unit while continuing the printing with active nozzles of a second printing unit. The method may include inspecting the first printing unit and identifying faulty nozzles, then designating the faulty nozzles as inactive and designating inactive nozzles of the first printing unit as a new active nozzle. According to some embodiments the method may include moving the first printing unit to an inspection zone prior to inspecting while continuing the printing with active nozzles of a second printing unit and moving the first printing unit back to the printing zone after inspection and continuing the printing with the first printing unit.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of printing, the method comprising:\n printing in a printing zone using a first printing unit having nozzles, a first portion of the nozzles is designated as active nozzles and a second portion of the nozzles is designated as inactive nozzles, wherein the printing is done by selectively depositing material from the active nozzles of the first printing unit; stopping the printing with the first printing unit while continuing the printing with active nozzles of a second printing unit; inspecting the nozzles of the first printing unit; choosing a new set of active nozzles based on inspection results; and continuing the printing using the first printing unit with the new set of active nozzles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83333
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14886251', '12134294', '15567512', '12107563', '11862557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7503632710680485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5050800166105813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7258349456223018
- Mean Citation Score: 219.734078
- Max Citation Score: 289.38425
- Similarity Product: 210.2436528401822

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

Dataset: test