PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037842
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "307000"]

Abstract:
A multi-beam charged particle beam device is described. The multi-beam charged particle beam device includes a charged particle source configured to emit a primary charged particle beam; an aperture arrangement having openings configured to generate at least a first beamlet and a second beamlet of the primary charged particle beam; and a blanking device, the blanking device includes at least a first blanking deflector for the first beamlet and a second blanking deflector for the second beamlet; and a shield assembly having a first shielding element partially or fully surrounding the first blanking deflector.

Claim (Index 9):
The multi-charged particle beam according to  claim 8 , wherein the splitting of the first beamlet and the second beamlet provides at least one of separate beamlet positions on the specimen or virtual sources of the first beamlet and the second beamlet in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16037815', '14947568', '15642147', '12294262', '14947241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7646347966894005
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.558853489960521
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7440566660165125
- Mean Citation Score: 347.28906800000016
- Max Citation Score: 450.75998
- Similarity Product: 355.3591226239073

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

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