PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["216", "067000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for transferring substrates and confining a processing environment in a chamber. One embodiment of the present invention provides a hoop assembly for using a processing chamber. The hoop assembly includes a confinement ring defining a confinement region therein, and three or more lifting fingers attached to the hoop. The three or more lifting fingers are configured to support a substrate outside the inner volume of the confinement ring.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the hoop body is slanted from a handle portion to a frame portion to reduce a thickness of the hoop body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7234
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13985843', '14002087', '13629267', '15611756', '15222689']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7484115265964892
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5378398845291914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7273543623897595
- Mean Citation Score: 242.62455
- Max Citation Score: 369.25052
- Similarity Product: 206.4291377501917

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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