PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16311242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["427", "248100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for subjecting a surface of a substrate to successive surface reactions of precursors according to the principles of atomic layer deposition. The method including subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first precursor in a first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in a second precursor zone. The method further includes changing the first precursor in the first precursor zone to a subsequent precursor which is different than the first and second precursors and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the subsequent precursor in the first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone.

Claim (Index 48):
The apparatus according to  claim 47 , wherein one of:\n the second precursor conduit and the second subsequent precursor conduit are connected to the one or more second precursor nozzles as separate conduits; or the apparatus further comprises a second zone supply conduit connected to both the second precursor conduit and the second subsequent precursor conduit and to the one or more second precursor nozzles for supplying the second precursor and the second subsequent precursor via the common second zone supply conduit; or the second precursor zone comprises one or more second precursor nozzles for supplying the second precursor and one or more second subsequent precursor nozzles for supplying the second subsequent precursor, the one or more second precursor nozzles being connected to the second precursor container via the second precursor conduit and the one or more second subsequent precursor nozzles being connected to the second subsequent precursor container via the second subsequent precursor conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15533825', '13817977', '14405995', '14900816', '13817082']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8223274889708488
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5047936175666281
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7905741018304268
- Mean Citation Score: 238.84834
- Max Citation Score: 255.25198
- Similarity Product: 188.22796647422555

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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