PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287120
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["433", "029000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is described for determining surface topography of a three-dimensional structure. The apparatus can include a probe and an illumination unit configured to output a plurality of light beams. In many embodiments, the apparatus includes a light focusing assembly. The light focusing assembly can receive and focus each of a plurality of light beams to a respective external focal point. The light focusing assembly can be configured to overlap the plurality of light beams within a focus changing assembly in order to move the external focal points along a direction of propagation of the light beams. The apparatus can include a detector having an array of sensing elements configured to measure a characteristic of each of a plurality of light beams returning from the illuminated spots and a processor coupled to the detector and configured to generate data representative of topography of the structure based on the measured characteristic.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the focus changing assembly is located along optical paths of the plurality of light beams such that one or more of the plurality of light beams overlaps with one or more other light beams of the plurality of light beams along at least a portion of the focus changing assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18056
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15811365', '14323215', '15220336', '15906616', '14980580']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7395501606625919
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332946237815929
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.718924606974492
- Mean Citation Score: 337.119972
- Max Citation Score: 390.6486
- Similarity Product: 285.55132256251574

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

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