PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863732
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "492300"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for processing a workpiece with a beam is described. The apparatus includes a vacuum chamber having a beam-line for forming a particle beam and treating a workpiece with the particle beam, and a scanner for translating the workpiece through the particle beam. The apparatus further includes a scanner control circuit coupled to the scanner, and configured to control a scan property of the scanner, and a beam control circuit coupled to at least one beam-line component, and configured to control the beam flux of the particle beam according to a duty cycle for switching between at least two different states during processing.

Claim (Index 10):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the beam control circuit is coupled to an acceleration electrode, and wherein the accelerator electrode is controlled to toggle the particle beam between at least two different accelerated states.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15266639', '14492819', '15242376', '13678972', '12237063']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6705471601351024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4923258287238415
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6527250269939764
- Mean Citation Score: 153.44764600000005
- Max Citation Score: 170.46563999999995
- Similarity Product: 113.00424859206672

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

Dataset: test