PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897954
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "306000"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatuses, systems and software for ion beam milling or machining are disclosed. The apparatus includes a specimen holder, a table, one or more ion sources, rotatable ion optics, and an imaging device. The specimen holder is configured to hold a specimen in a stationary position during milling or machining. The table is configured to change the stationary position of the specimen holder in any of three orthogonal linear directions and an angular direction. The rotatable ion optics are configured to emit an ion beam towards a predetermined location on the specimen from any of the one or more ion sources at any angle around an axis that is orthogonal to a horizontal surface of the table when the angular direction of the table is 0°. The imaging device is configured to generate an image of the specimen including the predetermined location, thereby enabling real-time monitoring of the milling or machining process.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 5 , wherein each of the first and second ion paths focus the ion beam onto the predetermined location on the specimen.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32394
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14642138', '10859845', '12842105', '12896281', '10903657']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.707044637715894
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5668463455707794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6930248085013826
- Mean Citation Score: 290.29600800000014
- Max Citation Score: 484.27008
- Similarity Product: 321.8498567504883

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

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