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 3):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , where the particle beam includes a neutral beam, a gas cluster beam, a gas cluster ion beam, an ion beam, an electron beam, or combinations thereof.

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): 0.6707039318771756
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916483399311188
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6527983726825699
- Mean Citation Score: 153.44764600000005
- Max Citation Score: 170.46563999999995
- Similarity Product: 113.7423511444902

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

Dataset: test