PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16097970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["850", "004000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating an atomic force microscope, comprising a probe, the probe being moved forth and back during respective trace and retrace times of a scan line, the method comprising: a) during trace time, oscillating the probe, b) generating a z feedback signal to keep an amplitude of oscillation of the probe constant at a setpoint value, the z feedback signal being generated by a first feedback loop, c) during retrace time, placing the probe in a drift compensation state by changing the setpoint value to a different value so that the z feedback signal being generated by the first feedback loop causes the probe to move away from the sample and oscillate free, d) detecting an amplitude of free oscillation of the probe and adjusting with a second feedback loop its excitation signal to maintain the amplitude of free oscillation of the probe close to a set value.

Claim (Index 11):
The method according to  claim 1 , the scanning being performed with different setpoint values A set  at respective subregions of the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22973
- Patent Class: 850.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14172710', '15806103', '12958323', '13694095', '15083727']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7164912652676552
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5148247398659955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6963246127274892
- Mean Citation Score: 299.7088080000001
- Max Citation Score: 309.74384
- Similarity Product: 208.27709287463188

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