PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775171
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
An alignment system ( 100 ) and method for positioning and/or keeping a first object ( 1 ) at a controlled distanced (D 1 ) with respect to a second object ( 2 ). An object stage ( 11 ) is configured to hold a surface ( 1 a ) of the first object ( 1 ) at a distance (D 1 ) over a surface ( 2 a ) of the second object ( 2 ). A sensor device ( 31 ) comprising a probe tip ( 31 a ) is connected at a predetermined probe level distance (Dp) relative to the surface ( 1 a ) of the first object ( 1 ). The probe tip ( 31 a ) is configured to perform an atomic force measurement (AFM) of a force (F 1 ) exerted via the probe tip ( 31 a ) on a surface ( 2 a ) of the second object ( 2 ). A controller ( 80 ) is configured to control an object stage actuator ( 21 ) as a function of the probe level distance (Dp) and the measured force (F 1 ) to maintain the controlled distanced (D 1 ).

Claim (Index 15):
The method according to  claim 14  wherein the distance between a level of the lens and a level of the sensor device is measured by an interferometric measurement of a light beam reflecting off a surface connected to the lens and a surface connected to the sensor device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.17647
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15769881', '15736154', '14374740', '15323078', '15757704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6981757404633009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4669373141573126
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6750518978327021
- Mean Citation Score: 159.046852
- Max Citation Score: 169.66666
- Similarity Product: 120.53175909575224

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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