PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906616
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "601000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is described for measuring surface topography of a three-dimensional structure. In many embodiments, the apparatus is configured to focus each of a plurality of light beams to a respective fixed focal position relative to the apparatus. The apparatus measures a characteristic of each of a plurality of returned light beams that are generated by illuminating the three-dimensional structure with the light beams. The characteristic is measured for a plurality of different positions and/or orientations between the apparatus and the three-dimensional structure. Surface topography of the three-dimensional structure is determined based at least in part on the measured characteristic of the returned light beams for the plurality of different positions and/or orientations between the apparatus and the three-dimensional structure.

Claim (Index 19):
An apparatus for measuring surface topography of a three-dimensional structure, the apparatus comprising:\n a hand-held optical probe; an illumination unit configured to generate a plurality of incident light beams; an optical system configured to focus each of incident light beams to respective focal planes relative to the optical probe, the focal lengths being fixed during surface topology measurement; a motion tracking device configured to collect motion data during surface topology measurement; a detector unit configured to measure a characteristic of each of a plurality of returned light beams that are generated by illuminating the three-dimensional structure with the plurality of incident light beams in order to measure the surface topography of the three-dimensional structure; and a processing unit comprising one or more processors and a tangible non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to process the motion data to determine relative position and orientation of the optical probe with respect to the three-dimensional structure and determine surface topography of the three-dimensional structure based on the measured characteristic of each of the plurality of returned light beams and the motion data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29091
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14323237', '14980580', '15593680', '14323225', '14980337']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6967986195314454
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5521064504913596
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6823294026274368
- Mean Citation Score: 357.31306800000016
- Max Citation Score: 405.7719
- Similarity Product: 382.4794851875425

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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