PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16108528
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["204", "275100"]

Abstract:
Plating bath and well structures and methods are described to stop the organic compounds present in plating reservoir wells or bath solution from rising, i.e., climbing up the reservoir wall. An electroplating apparatus includes a vessel holding a liquid solution including metal plating material and an organic species, and a method of operating an electroplating apparatus. The apparatus is designed with plating bath and structures and methods to stop the organic compounds present in plating reservoir wells or bath solution from rising, i.e., climbing or wicking up the inner surfaces of reservoir walls, and to wash them back down on a continuous or cyclical basis in order to maintain a concentration of organic compounds in the plating solution within upper and lower specification limits.

Claim (Index 11):
An electroplating apparatus comprising:\n a vessel having walls configured to hold a liquid solution of a metal plating material and including an organic species, wherein a workpiece immersed in the liquid solution displaces a volume of the liquid solution resulting in a liquid solution level rising within the vessel below a top rim thereof; a barrier material lining formed on an inner surface of each wall around a perimeter of the vessel below a top rim of the vessel, barrier material lining provided at an inner wall surface level corresponding to a level that the liquid solution level rises to in the vessel when a workpiece is immersed, the barrier material preventing the organic species from rising above the level on an inner wall surface of the vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95588
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14523061', '12179352', '14151532', '10154426', '12401113']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7535990472580979
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5749676705470923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7357359095869973
- Mean Citation Score: 256.094968
- Max Citation Score: 469.40598
- Similarity Product: 413.43592010012975

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

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