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 1):
A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) system, comprising:\n an electron-optical column array comprising a plurality of electron-optical columns; and an electron beam source array couplable to the electron-optical column array, wherein the electron beam source array comprises:\n a plurality of electron beam sources configured to generate a plurality of electron beams, wherein at least some of the electron beam sources comprise: an emitter coupled to an emitter holder, wherein the emitter includes one or more emitter tips configured to generate one or more electron beams of the plurality of electron beams; and a stack of one or more positioners coupled to the emitter holder, wherein the stack of one or more positioners is configured to adjust a position of the emitter based on one or more measurements of the electron beam generated by the emitter, wherein the emitter is configured to scan the one or more electron beams across an area surrounding a bore of a particular electron-optical column of the plurality of electron-optical columns; \n a carrier plate coupled to the plurality of electron beam sources; and \n a source tower coupled to the carrier plate, wherein 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.

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): 0.7219093929040503
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5158465204833341
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7013031056619787
- Mean Citation Score: 259.749068
- Max Citation Score: 337.24033
- Similarity Product: 301.4156245414239

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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