PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16121797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["419", "PCA001"]

Abstract:
A variety of additive manufacturing techniques can be adapted to fabricate a substantially net shape object from a computerized model using materials that can be debound and sintered into a fully dense metallic part or the like. However, during sintering, the net shape will shrink as binder escapes and the base material fuses into a dense final part. If the foundation beneath the object does not shrink in a corresponding fashion, the resulting stresses throughout the object can lead to fracturing, warping, or other physical damage to the object resulting in a failed fabrication. To address this issue, a variety of techniques are disclosed for substrates and build plates that contract in a manner complementary to the object during debinding and sintering.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1  wherein fabricating the support structure includes fabricating a build plate for use as the support structure by injection molding the build plate with the support material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65
- Patent Class: 419.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15868481', '15469444', '15469170', '15469371', '15469432']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7329026413859951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.568102301742805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7164226074216762
- Mean Citation Score: 380.045488
- Max Citation Score: 447.08316
- Similarity Product: 371.4442826673603

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

Dataset: test