PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287120
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["433", "029000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is described for determining surface topography of a three-dimensional structure. The apparatus can include a probe and an illumination unit configured to output a plurality of light beams. In many embodiments, the apparatus includes a light focusing assembly. The light focusing assembly can receive and focus each of a plurality of light beams to a respective external focal point. The light focusing assembly can be configured to overlap the plurality of light beams within a focus changing assembly in order to move the external focal points along a direction of propagation of the light beams. The apparatus can include a detector having an array of sensing elements configured to measure a characteristic of each of a plurality of light beams returning from the illuminated spots and a processor coupled to the detector and configured to generate data representative of topography of the structure based on the measured characteristic.

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the image space lens comprises a focal length and location arranged to overlap and substantially collimate the plurality of light beams passing through the focus changing assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18056
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15811365', '14323215', '15220336', '15906616', '14980580']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7388098447158362
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5342507060102668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7183539308452792
- Mean Citation Score: 337.119972
- Max Citation Score: 390.6486
- Similarity Product: 311.3271388603806

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

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