PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055125
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "450000"]

Abstract:
Interference fringes in a bullseye pattern are produced by a measurement module by interfering a flat reference beam with a spherical beam reflected by a sphere connected to the tip of a probe in point contact with a test object. The bullseye interferogram is registered at a detector and analyzed conventionally to produce a position measurement of the tip of the probe. A beam correction module is used to align the bullseye interferogram with the illumination axis of the measurement module. By combining at least three such measurement modules in a coordinate measurement machine, the three-dimensional position of the probe and of its point contact with the test object can be obtained from analysis of the bullseye interferograms registered by the detectors with high precision and greatly reduced Abbe error.

Claim (Index 10):
The CMM of  claim 9 , wherein said correction modules include respective sensors with multiple detector elements receiving respective signals from said bullseye interferograms, and said processor is further programmed to drive each of the correction modules so as to cause the detector elements to sense a bullseye pattern when said bullseye interferograms are centered on said respective illumination axes of the measurement modules.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90141
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11064731', '10295479', '10180286', '10887409', '12580694']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7102222276357648
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493614344764672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6885614393486555
- Mean Citation Score: 172.115346
- Max Citation Score: 190.9405
- Similarity Product: 122.6854592950642

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

Dataset: test