PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16108464
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["216", "099000"]

Abstract:
A method of processing a wafer is disclosed. The method includes, in some embodiments, causing a relative movement between a cleaning brush and a wafer. During the relative movement, a planar cleaning surface of the cleaning brush is brought into contact with a surface of the wafer to remove contaminants from the surface of the wafer. A first size of the cleaning brush, in a plan view, is larger than a second size of the wafer in the plan view.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n performing a bulk polishing operation to reduce a thickness of the wafer at a first rate; performing a buff polishing operation after the bulk polishing process is completed, wherein the buff polishing operation further reduces the thickness of the wafer at a second rate that is lower than the first rate; causing the relative movement between the cleaning brush and the wafer after the buff polishing operation is completed; and performing a pencil cleaning operation to remove contaminants from the wafer after the relative movement between the cleaning brush and the wafer is completed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17073
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14105242', '14870946', '11032858', '10610098', '15638463']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7383493004903562
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872730371964779
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7132416741609684
- Mean Citation Score: 167.89885199999995
- Max Citation Score: 249.3295
- Similarity Product: 199.72627461647988

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

Dataset: test