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 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein thermally insulating any portion not subjected to heat treating to maintain an elastic modulus of the portion not subjected to heat treating comprises direct contact chilling, air cooling, or gas flow cooling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28846
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13791843', '13596338', '15268915', '13791851', '11288492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7737052289089399
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289441597763428
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7492291219956801
- Mean Citation Score: 172.54562600000003
- Max Citation Score: 185.65535
- Similarity Product: 89.8531941155508

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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