PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899905
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["250", "307000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure is related to a method and apparatus for transmission electron microscopy wherein a TEM specimen is subjected to at least one thinning step by scratching at least an area of the specimen with an SPM probe, and wherein the thinned area is subjected to an SPM acquisition step, using the same SPM probe or another probe.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for performing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on a TEM specimen, comprising:\n thinning at least an area of the TEM specimen by scratching a surface of the TEM specimen with a probe suitable for Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM); performing an SPM acquisition step on the thinned area; exposing the thinned area to an electron beam; and taking a TEM image of the thinned area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5641
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11265934', '11701410', '12168241', '10898532', '15464307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6654883200799945
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4792378109314316
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6468632691651381
- Mean Citation Score: 185.321436
- Max Citation Score: 188.27254
- Similarity Product: 143.74757213675855

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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