PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913565
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["850", "001000"]

Abstract:
An atomic force microscope (AFM) and corresponding method to provide low force (sub-20 pN) AFM control and mechanical property measurement is provided. The preferred embodiments employ real-time false deflection correction/discrimination by adaptively modifying the drive ramp to accommodate to deflection artifacts.

Claim (Index 3):
A method of detecting a force between a sample and a probe of an AFM, the method comprising:\n positioning at least one of the probe and the sample at a location of interest of the sample; moving at least one of the probe and the sample to lessen a separation therebetween and cause the two to interact; measuring a deflection of the probe based on the moving step; discriminating, in real-time, a deflection artifact from a deflection due to probe-sample interaction from the measured deflection data; and observing a first contact between the tip and the sample based on the discriminating step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23684
- Patent Class: 850.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14563826', '15438429', '12618641', '14288180', '14193138']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6977575566274786
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5376934966862477
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6817511506333556
- Mean Citation Score: 304.67021
- Max Citation Score: 393.5309
- Similarity Product: 369.9968025951504

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

Dataset: test