PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["324", "755110"]

Abstract:
Probe systems and methods including electric contact detection. The probe systems include a probe assembly and a chuck. The probe systems also include a translation structure configured to operatively translate the probe assembly and/or the chuck and an instrumentation package configured to detect contact between the probe system and a device under test (DUT) and to test operation of the DUT. The instrumentation package includes a continuity detection circuit, a test circuit, and a translation structure control circuit. The continuity detection circuit is configured to detect electrical continuity between a first probe electrical conductor and a second probe electrical conductor. The test circuit is configured to electrically test the DUT. The translation structure control circuit is configured to control the operation of the translation structure. The methods include monitoring continuity between a first probe and a second probe and controlling the operation of a probe system based upon the monitoring.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein, prior to the repeating the setting, the method further includes operatively translating the substrate and the probe assembly away from one another to cease electrical contact between the contact location of the DUT and both the first probe and the second probe, and further wherein, subsequent to the repeating the setting, the method includes:\n (i) repeating the monitoring to monitor the continuity between the first probe and the second probe; (ii) repeating the operatively translating the substrate and the probe assembly toward one another to establish electrical contact between the contact location of the DUT and both the first probe and the second probe; (iii) responsive to electrical contact between the contact location and both the first probe and the second probe, repeating the detecting continuity between the first probe and the second probe; (iv) responsive to the repeating the detecting continuity, repeating the ceasing the operatively translating; and (v) subsequent to the repeating the ceasing, repeating the utilizing the first probe and the second probe to electrically test the operation of the DUT at the second test temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0566
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15471199', '15821101', '14625385', '15708681', '15184374']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5577850865210547
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986749287746856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5518740707464179
- Mean Citation Score: 201.389012
- Max Citation Score: 207.35338
- Similarity Product: 133.7414430381012

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