PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174053
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["356", "454000"]

Abstract:
Inspecting a multilayer sample. In one example embodiment, a method may receiving, at a beam splitter, light and splitting the light into first and second portions; combining, at the beam splitter, the first portion of the light after being reflected from a multilayer sample and the second portion of the light after being reflected from a reflector; receiving, at a computer-controlled system for analyzing Fabry-Perot fringes, the combined light and spectrally analyzing the combined light to determine a value of a total power impinging a slit of the system for analyzing Fabry-Perot fringes; determining an optical path difference (OPD); recording an interferogram that plots the value versus the OPD for the OPD; performing the previous acts of the method one or more additional times with a different OPD; and using the interferogram for each of the different OPDs to determine the thicknesses and order of the layers of the multilayer sample.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 8 , further comprising:\n (b1) receiving, at a directional element, the light from the broadband light source and directing, from the directional element, the light to the beam splitter; and (b2) the method further comprises receiving, at the directional element, the combined light from the beam splitter and directing, from the directional element, the combined light to the system for analyzing Fabry-Perot fringes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21053
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15486146', '15009755', '14047681', '15410328', '16048712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7065109488101474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6252279327831497
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6983826472074477
- Mean Citation Score: 322.34348
- Max Citation Score: 575.8244
- Similarity Product: 554.2369432660103

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