PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896638
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["850", "033000"]

Abstract:
Device and system for characterizing samples using multiple integrated tips scanning probe microscopy. Multiple Integrated Tips (MiT) probes are comprised of two or more monolithically integrated and movable AFM tips positioned to within nanometer of each other, enabling unprecedented micro to nanoscale probing functionality in vacuum or ambient conditions. The tip structure is combined with capacitive comb structures offering laserless high-resolution electric-in electric-out actuation and sensing capability. This “platform-on-a-chip” approach is a paradigm shift relative to current technology based on single tips functionalized using stacks of supporting gear: lasers, nano-positioners and electronics.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of mounting a probe to a scanning probe microscope adapter, the method comprising the steps of:\n extending a top component of the probe head using a stage or an actuator connected to the top component, the top component comprising a spring-loaded electrode; picking up, using a probe arm of a probe handler, a probe or a board component which houses a probe; rotating and/or moving the probe arm of the probe handler to position the spring-loaded electrode of the top component above a topside of the probe; and retracting the stage or actuator to push the spring-loaded electrode against the board component or the probe comprising the probe tips, wherein the spring-loaded electrode makes electrical contact to the board component or probe comprising the probe tips.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.19767
- Patent Class: 850.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15054626', '12682391', '11133021', '10428572', '14601573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.667519963988224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4963378071226216
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6504017483016639
- Mean Citation Score: 164.92571
- Max Citation Score: 193.68506
- Similarity Product: 121.83747472476244

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