PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "010000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include devices and methods for detecting particles, monitoring etch or deposition rates, or controlling an operation of a wafer fabrication process. In an embodiment, a particle monitoring device for particle detection includes several capacitive micro sensors mounted on a wafer substrate to detect particles under all pressure regimes, e.g., under vacuum conditions. In an embodiment, one or more capacitive micro sensors is mounted on a wafer processing tool to measure material deposition and removal rates in real-time during the wafer fabrication process. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 15  further comprising:\n detecting, by a measurement device, a process parameter of the substrate fabrication process; and \n determining a root cause of the change of the parameter of the sensor based on the detected process parameter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5873
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15187717', '15649597', '15247717', '14935186', '12977240']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8628184205001249
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5405939407921672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8305959725293292
- Mean Citation Score: 262.177092
- Max Citation Score: 386.71548
- Similarity Product: 307.49779810333735

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