PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887186
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["438", "016000"]

Abstract:
A method of inspecting a semiconductor substrate includes measuring light intensity of light reflected on the rotating semiconductor substrate, analyzing a frequency distribution of the measured light intensity, and determining a state of the semiconductor substrate by using the frequency distribution. The analyzing of the frequency distribution of the measured light intensity includes extracting a plurality of frequency components corresponding respectively to a plurality of frequencies from the measured light intensity.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n setting a processing environment of a semiconductor substrate; processing the semiconductor substrate according to the processing environment; inspecting the semiconductor substrate in real-time to determine a state of the semiconductor substrate; and determining whether the processing of the semiconductor substrate is to be continued based on the determined state of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the inspecting the semiconductor substrate in real-time comprises:\n measuring light intensity of light reflected on the semiconductor substrate while the semiconductor substrate rotates; \n calculating a frequency distribution of the measured light intensity; and \n determining the state of the semiconductor substrate by using the frequency distribution of the light intensity, \n wherein the calculating of the frequency distribution of the measured light intensity comprises extracting a plurality of frequency components corresponding respectively to a plurality of frequencies from the measured light intensity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11253028', '15654899', '10338020', '12198821', '11476651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8407988342819452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4601109260861701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8027300434623678
- Mean Citation Score: 136.221068
- Max Citation Score: 142.67155
- Similarity Product: 110.45329830034376

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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