PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752386
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["850", "021000"]

Abstract:
Methods for imaging a substrate include: inducing an electrospray from a nanopipette probe; varying a distance between the nanopipette probe and a surface of the substrate until a predefined electrospray current and/or a predefined distance threshold is reached; and determining a topography of the surface of the substrate based on feedback derived from distance dependency of the electrospray current. Apparatuses for performing scanning electrospray microscopy and methods for spatially controlled deposition of material on surfaces of substrates are described.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for imaging a substrate via scanning electrospray microscopy, the method comprising:\n inducing an electrospray from a nanopipette probe, wherein an inner diameter of a tip of the nanopipette probe is less than about 300 nm; scanning the substrate with the nanopipette probe at each of a plurality of lateral points relative to a surface of the substrate; decreasing distance between the nanopipette probe and the surface of the substrate until a predefined electrospray current threshold is reached; recording a position of the nanopipette probe when the predefined electrospray current threshold is reached; and determining a topography of the surface of the substrate based on feedback derived from distance dependency of electrospray current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 850.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463860', '13406269', '14775168', '13480917', '12435056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6164451151260731
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4918942956988558
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6039900331833514
- Mean Citation Score: 185.322138
- Max Citation Score: 204.2615
- Similarity Product: 141.62266912296414

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

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