PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056860
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A three-dimensional (3D) microscope includes various insertable components that facilitate multiple imaging and measurement capabilities. These capabilities include Nomarski imaging, polarized light imaging, quantitative differential interference contrast (q-DIC) imaging, motorized polarized light imaging, phase-shifting interferometry (PSI), and vertical-scanning interferometry (VSI).

Claim (Index 21):
A method of 3D imaging or measuring a sample, the sample including a plurality of surface features with different vertical levels, the method comprising:\n varying a relative distance between the sample and an objective lens at predetermined steps; at first predetermined steps:\n projecting an image of a patterned article onto a focal plane of the objective lens; \n capturing a first image with a pattern associated with the patterned article and the sample, and storing the first image in a first image array; \n at second predetermined steps, wherein the second predetermined steps have a different number of steps than the first predetermined steps:\n capturing a second image of the sample without the pattern associated with the patterned article, and storing the second image in a second image array; and \n analyzing the first and second images to 3D image or measure the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57143
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13333938', '13494949', '13172686', '15150406', '15118877']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.632711501794947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5507399568262138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6245143472980736
- Mean Citation Score: 293.760608
- Max Citation Score: 423.09543
- Similarity Product: 347.98363009817007

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

Dataset: test