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 2):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the thinning step is preceded by:\n exposing the area of the TEM specimen that is to be thinned to an electron beam and taking a first TEM image of the area, and/or performing a first SPM acquisition step on the area that is to be thinned.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5641
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11265934', '11701410', '12168241', '10898532', '15464307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6884464043582235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950816930373808
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6691099332261392
- Mean Citation Score: 185.321436
- Max Citation Score: 188.27254
- Similarity Product: 125.85617671048284

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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