PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["427", "596000"]

Abstract:
This invention claims a method for creating patterns of carbon or other elements as deposits on the surface of substrates or as self-supporting filaments in liquid or solid media by the selected application of directed energy. In some embodiments, the deposits or filaments may be of primary interest because of their mechanical properties. In other embodiments, the patterns may have useful physical properties such as being electrically conductive, semi-conductive or electric insulators. Many different deposit precursors, types of directed energy, and adjunct reagents are described. The invention anticipates numerous different embodiments created by selecting various combinations of these elements and sequences of application as a means to build complex devices. In particular, the patterns may constitute the elements of an electric circuit or device (e.g., wires, capacitors, diodes, transistors).

Claim (Index 23):
A method for creating electrically conducting patterns of sp 2 -hybridized carbon on the surface of a substrate by selectively initiating the polymerization of a gaseous deposit precursor (comprising a vapor of one or more or the following compound: 1,1-dichloroethene, 1,2-dichloroethene or 1,1,1-trichlorethane) in a predetermined pattern by controlled application of directed energy (comprising one or more of the following sorts of energy: electromagnetic waves, high kinetic energy ions or electrical current) controlled in such a way that they only activate polymerization in a limited and predetermined place on or adjacent to the substrate\n comprising the steps of:\n providing the deposit precursor, a directed energy emission apparatus, solid substrate and a reaction vessel; \n placing the deposit precursor and solid substrate into the reaction vessel; \n selectively sending a directed energy emission into the reaction vessel imping on the substrate with the directed energy emission apparatus; such that the directed energy causes polymerization of the deposit precursor only at or adjacent to the points of incidence of the directed energy emission within the reaction vessel to produce a deposit layer on the substrate; \n separating the excess deposit precursor from the patterned substrate and \n applying directed energy or general heating to the polymerized deposit precursor to cause its decomposition by elimination of HCl to yield a final deposit of electrically conducting sp 2 -hybridized carbon in a predetermined pattern on the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65169
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11131981', '09811919', '12991838', '12770857', '14827752']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.774060060851346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4634081415087864
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7429948689170901
- Mean Citation Score: 126.103106
- Max Citation Score: 130.126
- Similarity Product: 97.85168498432635

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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