PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15994616
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["850", "002000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are devices, systems and methods for in-line, nanoscale metrology. One system comprises monolithic flexure mechanisms with integrated actuators that allow movement and positioning in two axes, with an extremely high degree of accuracy, of a structure comprising one or more scanning probes. This structure is suspended to prevent any destructive interference from a sample, which can be stationary or moving at a nonzero rate, and rigid or flexible in mechanical behavior. This system can be activated at startup and quickly actuate the structure to approach the surface of the sample. Once the system achieves the desired proximity between the one or more probes and the sample, the system maintains that position of the structure to a high degree of accuracy regardless of any disturbances. This array can be moved at varying speeds laterally to match the velocity of any continually moving substrates, thus enabling scanning of moving substrates.

Claim (Index 22):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein at least one of the one or more AFM probes comprises a MEMS AFM probe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78261
- Patent Class: 850.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14215903', '15077599', '11075019', '14970237', '10115274']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6651007157789256
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875213953693622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6473427837379693
- Mean Citation Score: 134.12469800000002
- Max Citation Score: 147.88478
- Similarity Product: 90.02903583926678

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