PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16383257
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["324", "750190"]

Abstract:
The systems, apparatuses, and methods herein can provide a multi-site positioning mechanism suitable for long-term testing of a device(s) under test (DUT) (e.g. semiconductor wafers) across a range of temperatures with or without a controlled environment. The systems, apparatuses, and methods herein include mounting components, mechanisms, and structures that can provide excellent mechanical stability, permit relatively close working distance optics with high resolution, enable fine positioning at elevated temperature in a controlled environment with minimal thermal perturbation. The systems, apparatuses, and methods herein can be provided with modularity, for example as modular with rails and test sites that can be easily added or removed, and that can permit access to probe modules in a densely packed array.

Claim (Index 1):
A probe module positioning system to observe and test arrays of devices under test (DUT) comprising:\n a support member including:\n a planar surface parallel to array, and \n two linear guide features that are parallel to a direction (Y) of the DUT array, the guide features being separated in a direction (X) that is perpendicular to the direction (Y) so that the DUT array is disposed therebetween; \n at least two brackets supported in a direction (Z) by the planar surface of the support member, the direction (Z) being perpendicular to the direction (X) and the direction (Y), the at least two brackets being movable along the two linear guide features in the direction (Y) and configured to be restricted from moving along the guide features and from moving perpendicular to the guide features in at least one direction relative to the direction (Y), with at least one of the brackets guided by one of the two linear guide features such that at least one of the brackets is disposed on a side of the DUT array; at least one rail supported above the DUT array at each end by the at least two brackets, the at least two brackets being disposed on opposite sides of the DUT array such that the rail can be positioned perpendicular to the two linear guide features and parallel to the direction (X), the at least two brackets controlling a position of the ends of the rail in the direction (Y) and the direction (Z) and at least one of the brackets also controlling a position of the rail in the direction (X) and at least one of the brackets controlling rotation of the rail about a longitudinal axis of the rail; at least one site assembly that can carry a probe module and that is prevented from moving in at least one of the direction (Y) and the direction (Z) and about (X), (Y), and (Z) axes in at least one direction of the rail, the at least one site assembly being positioned along the rail, the at least one site assembly can be restricted from moving along the rail, the site assembly including at least one fine positioning stage for positioning the probe module relative to the site assembly in the direction (X), the direction (Y), or the direction (Z), or about the (X), (Y), or (Z) axes; and a tool that includes optics for viewing a DUT, a control, or an actuator for at least one site assembly fine positioning axis, that can be aligned with the site assembly to actuate at least one fine positioning stage in the site assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7284
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16066990', '10816114', '15125019', '16134571', '12050520']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5542133873970059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5692924929955205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5557212979568573
- Mean Citation Score: 206.119768
- Max Citation Score: 453.40543
- Similarity Product: 444.8272405096293

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

Dataset: test