PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113165
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "237500"]

Abstract:
A surface topography of a sample with a transparent surface layer is measured using surface topographies of a reference sample. The surface topographies of the reference sample are measured before and after the deposition of an opaque film over the surface layer. A surface topography of the sample is measured at the same relative positions as the surface topography measurements of the reference sample. A height difference at multiple corresponding positions on the sample and the pre-opaque film reference sample is determined. The actual surface height of the reference sample at each position is known from the surface topography of the post-opaque reference sample. The actual surface topography of the sample is determined by combining the actual surface heights of the reference sample with the determined height differences. The resulting surface topography of the sample may be used to characterize the sample, such as detecting defects on the sample.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the second relative height at each measurement position in the first plurality of measurement positions provided by the second surface topography is not dependent on the one or more patterns underlying the surface film and the opaque film of the at least one reference sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15207261', '13112821', '10558006', '12020351', '10405528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6821607673525748
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5146428963880126
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6654089802561186
- Mean Citation Score: 201.195138
- Max Citation Score: 218.1149
- Similarity Product: 124.45848820332886

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

Dataset: test