PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16172609
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "282000"]

Abstract:
An imaging system that selectively alternates between a first, non-destructive imaging mode and a second, destructive imaging mode to analyze a specimen so as to determine an atomic structure and composition of the specimen is provided. The field ionization mode can be used to acquire first images of ionized atoms of an imaging gas present in a chamber having the specimen disposed therein, and the field evaporation mode can be used to acquire second images of ionized specimen atoms evaporated from a surface of the specimen with the imaging gas remaining in the chamber. The first and second image data can be analyzed in real time, during the specimen analysis, and results can be used to dynamically adjust operating parameters of the imaging system.

Claim (Index 22):
An imaging system for analyzing specimens, the imaging system comprising:\n a chamber having a controlled gas atmosphere maintained therein, the chamber being configured to receive a specimen; a detector; an energy applying component; and a controller configured to cause the energy applying component to selectively apply energy to the specimen disposed in the chamber having the controlled gas atmosphere such that the detector provides a first image of the specimen acquired in a first, non-destructive imaging mode of the imaging system, and a second image of the specimen acquired in a second, destructive imaging mode of the imaging system, the first and second images alternately acquired while the controlled gas atmosphere is maintained in the chamber, the controller further configured to cause, after the first image is acquired and before the second image is acquired, the energy applying component to apply energy to the specimen to cause gas atoms adsorbed on a tip of the specimen to desorb from the tip without being ionized.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03077
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15322223', '13053790', '12692394', '12064020', '10592661']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6508824295573588
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5816680267058302
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6439609892722059
- Mean Citation Score: 250.895582
- Max Citation Score: 466.79553
- Similarity Product: 443.1346405948056

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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