PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173175
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "307000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a charged particle microscope comprising: Providing a specimen on a specimen holder; Using a source to produce a beam of charged particles, and irradiating the specimen with said beam; Using a detector to detect X-ray radiation emanating from the specimen in response to said irradiation, and to produce a spectrum comprising X-ray characteristic peaks on a Bremsstrahlung background, comprising the following additional steps:  Using an elemental decomposition algorithm to analyze the characteristic peaks in said spectrum, thereby determining a reference group of major chemical elements contributing to the spectrum; Calculating an average atomic number for said reference group, and using this in a predictive model to generate a calculated Bremsstrahlung profile for the reference group; Fitting said calculated Bremsstrahlung profile to the Bremsstrahlung background in said spectrum, and attributing a discrepancy between the latter and the former to a residual element absent from, or incorrectly quantified in, said reference group.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 11 , further including based on the determination of a residual element being absent from or incorrectly identified in the reference group elements, the steps of the method are iterated with the determined residual element included with the reference group of elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06098
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14983038', '15585059', '11427284', '15264132', '14021886']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7230647240339397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5008548635671196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7008437379872577
- Mean Citation Score: 199.085718
- Max Citation Score: 223.4814
- Similarity Product: 141.78504763484003

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

Dataset: test