PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154374
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "395000"]

Abstract:
A method for detecting electron beam filament wear in an electron beam source, the method comprising the steps of: enlarging a beam spot emanating from the electron beam source on a work table to a predetermined minimum size, capturing an image of the beam spot on the work table by a camera, comparing the captured image of the beam spot with a reference image, and detecting filament wear if the captured image is deviating more than a predetermined value from the reference image.

Claim (Index 15):
The apparatus according to  claim 12 , wherein the means for defocusing the spot of the electron beam is at least one focusing lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97778
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12778756', '15820955', '12165279', '12639206', '12488407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7290124006885107
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675118060298518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7028623412226449
- Mean Citation Score: 147.152494
- Max Citation Score: 155.61702
- Similarity Product: 113.1227394624567

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

Dataset: test