PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["432", "259000"]

Abstract:
A support ring for supporting a semiconductor wafer in a boat of a vertical furnace used in processing of the semiconductor wafer includes a semicircular segment. The semicircular segment has an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, a radial inner wall defining an inner radius, and a radial outer wall defining an outer radius. The support ring further includes protrusions in the upper surface of the semicircular segment. The protrusions extend above the upper surface.

Claim (Index 7):
A support ring for supporting a semiconductor wafer in a boat of a vertical furnace used in processing of the semiconductor wafer, the support ring comprising:\n a semicircular segment having an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, a radial inner wall defining an inner radius, and a radial outer wall defining an outer radius; and protrusions extending from the upper surface of the semicircular segment and defining a single plane to support the semiconductor wafer such that the semiconductor wafer does not contact the upper surface, wherein the protrusions are spaced equidistant from a center of the support ring and are spaced along an arc, wherein the radial inner wall defines an inner radius and the radial outer wall defines an outer radius, the arc having a radius greater than the inner radius and less than the outer radius, and wherein the protrusions are substantially closer to the radial inner wall than to the radial outer wall, the upper surface being free of any protrusions between the arc and the radial outer wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17949
- Patent Class: 432.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15293696', '13232684', '15352816', '14481131', '12011981']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7083988120843397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5610441916318611
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6936633500390919
- Mean Citation Score: 256.595904
- Max Citation Score: 434.5401
- Similarity Product: 388.513009608686

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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