PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["250", "310000"]

Abstract:
A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) system includes a plurality of electron-optical columns and a plurality of electron beam sources. The electron beam sources include an emitter including one or more emitter tips configured to generate one or more electron beams of a plurality of electron beams. The electron beam sources include a stack of one or more positioners configured to adjust a position of the emitter based on one or more measurements of the electron beam generated by the emitter. The emitter is configured to scan the one or more electron beams across an area surrounding a bore of an electron-optical column of the plurality of electron-optical columns. The electron beam source array includes a carrier plate and a source tower. The source tower is configured to adjust a position of the plurality of electron beam sources relative to a position of the plurality of electron-optical columns.

Claim (Index 27):
A method, comprising:\n dismounting an electron beam source array from an electron-optical column array, wherein the electron beam source array includes a plurality of electron beam sources, wherein the plurality of electron beam sources generates a plurality of electron beams; aligning a first electron beam source of the plurality of electron beam sources with a viewport of a test chamber, wherein the first electron beam source generates a first electron beam of the plurality of electron beams; performing one or more inspection processes on the first electron beam of the plurality of electron beams; repositioning the first electron beam source within the electron beam source array; aligning at least an additional electron beam source of the electron beam source array with the viewport of the test chamber, wherein the at least the additional electron beam source generates at least an additional electron beam of the plurality of electron beams; performing one or more inspection processes on the at least the additional electron beam of the plurality of electron beams; repositioning the at least the additional electron beam source within the electron beam source array; and remounting the electron beam source array onto the electron-optical column array, wherein at least one of the electron beam source array, the electron-optical column array, or the test chamber is a component of a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15616749', '15645863', '15272194', '15269031', '15507661']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7219531979107033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5172002942123176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7014779075408648
- Mean Citation Score: 259.749068
- Max Citation Score: 337.24033
- Similarity Product: 284.4479526917792

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

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