PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "503000"]

Abstract:
Methods are described for obtaining digital data for determining, shaping or testing a semiconductor or anisotropic device or materials under test or manufacture. Optical interferometric techniques can sense a wide region, such as that passing through or reflected off a semiconductor material, which can then be analyzed. In this manner, various characteristics of the resultant transmitted or reflected probing beam, herein called the “object wave,” are recorded in the resultant interference pattern between the object wave and the reference beam. Likewise, when the semiconductor material, such as an integrated circuit, is stressed by applying a voltage therein by energizing a circuit fabricated therein, the same light will reflect or otherwise pass through the semiconductor material, while being affected by the changes imposed upon or acting within the interior structures or interior surfaces by an applied voltage or signal, or by an incident external stress, thereby resulting in a different pattern.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of obtaining digital data for determining, shaping or testing a semiconductor or anisotropic device or materials under test comprising:\n (a) providing a beam of light from a light source having a first wavelength; (b) in a first beam instance imposing said beam of light on a test device transmitted through or reflected from the interior surfaces or structures over a spatial region within said test device substantially greater than said first wavelength, wherein said test device has a first state of refractive indexes; (c) in a second beam instance imposing said beam of light on said test device over said spatial region within said test device, wherein said test device has a second state of refractive indexes; (d) obtaining, displaying, transmitting, processing, or storing first electric digital data resulting from the interference of said first beam instance of light transmitted through or reflected from the interior surfaces or structures within said device under test representative of voltages or electromagnetic signals within said region and obtaining second electric digital data resulting from the interference of said second beam instance within said device under test representative of the voltages or electromagnetic signals within said region, and comparing by electric digital data processing said first and second electric digital data to determine operating characteristics within said device under test; (e) displaying, transmitting, processing, or storing at least one of said operating characteristics; and (f) wherein said first state of refractive indexes is at a first voltage potential or electromagnetic field state, and wherein said second state of refractive indexes is at a second voltage potential or electromagnetic field state different from said first voltage potential or electromagnetic field state or electromagnetic signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65686
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14984362', '14522334', '14109362', '12120924', '13366180']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7638229763054711
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5797409326671265
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7454147719416367
- Mean Citation Score: 323.576966
- Max Citation Score: 347.37042
- Similarity Product: 339.23834650642283

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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