PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174146
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "306000"]

Abstract:
One modified source-conversion unit and one method to reduce the Coulomb Effect in a multi-beam apparatus are proposed. In the modified source-conversion unit, the aberration-compensation function is carried out after the image-forming function has changed each beamlet to be on-axis locally, and therefore avoids undesired aberrations due to the beamlet tilting/shifting. A Coulomb-effect-reduction means with plural Coulomb-effect-reduction openings is placed close to the single electron source of the apparatus and therefore the electrons not in use can be cut off as early as possible.

Claim (Index 8):
The source-conversion unit of  claim 7 ,\n wherein the particular beamlet forms a probe spot on a sample, and wherein the particular beamlet having the added aberration counteracting another aberration results in improved resolution of an image of the sample generated based on the particular beamlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43548
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15150858', '15403685', '15065342', '15403749', '15633639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7678967802687516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5765134704234428
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7487584492842208
- Mean Citation Score: 425.827262
- Max Citation Score: 492.79846
- Similarity Product: 381.7570665879583

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

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