PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16105632
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "310000"]

Abstract:
An electron-optical system for inspecting or reviewing an edge portion of a sample includes an electron beam source configured to generate one or more electron beams, a sample stage configured to secure the sample and an electron-optical column including a set of electron-optical elements configured to direct at least a portion of the one or more electron beams onto an edge portion of the sample. The system also includes a sample position reference device disposed about the sample and a guard ring device disposed between the edge of the sample and the sample position reference device to compensate for one or more fringe fields. One or more characteristics of the guard ring device are adjustable. The system also includes a detector assembly configured to detect electrons emanating from the surface of the sample.

Claim (Index 13):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the electron-optical system comprises at least one of an electron beam inspection system or an electron beam review system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2623
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15231728', '15645863', '15387388', '15616749', '15269031']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7311081679043568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5534415645796613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7133415075718873
- Mean Citation Score: 258.639816
- Max Citation Score: 417.71277
- Similarity Product: 386.5364167978871

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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