PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752386
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["850", "021000"]

Abstract:
Methods for imaging a substrate include: inducing an electrospray from a nanopipette probe; varying a distance between the nanopipette probe and a surface of the substrate until a predefined electrospray current and/or a predefined distance threshold is reached; and determining a topography of the surface of the substrate based on feedback derived from distance dependency of the electrospray current. Apparatuses for performing scanning electrospray microscopy and methods for spatially controlled deposition of material on surfaces of substrates are described.

Claim (Index 13):
An apparatus for performing scanning electrospray microscopy, the apparatus comprising:\n a nanopipette probe movably mounted relative to a surface of a substrate, wherein the nanopipette probe is configured to emit an electrospray; an electrode provided in the nanopipette probe; a counter-electrode provided on or proximal to the surface of the substrate; a power source configured to induce a potential between the electrode and the surface sufficient to induce an electrospray directed towards the surface of the substrate; a current monitoring unit configured to measure an electrospray current; and a computer processor coupled to a non-transitory memory, wherein the computer processor is operative to execute computer program instructions to cause the processor to determine a topography of the surface of the substrate based on feedback derived from distance dependency of electrospray current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 850.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463860', '13406269', '14775168', '13480917', '12435056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.618000512691933
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852908947194106
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6047295508946808
- Mean Citation Score: 185.322138
- Max Citation Score: 204.2615
- Similarity Product: 151.9840372558833

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

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