PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16377501
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["315", "111210"]

Abstract:
Multiple harmonic frequency components are used for plasma excitation in a plasma process. Relative amplitude and/or phase shift between the different frequency components is controlled so as to provide desired ion energy plasma properties. The relative amplitude and/or phase shift may be controlled without direct and/or manual ion energy measurements. Rather, the ion energy within the plasma may be dynamically controlled by monitoring one or more electrical characteristics within the plasma apparatus, such as for example, impedance levels, electrical signals in the radio frequency (RF) generator, electrical signals in a the matching networks, and electrical signals in other circuits of the plasma processing apparatus. The monitoring and control of the ion energy may be accomplished dynamically during the plasma process so as to maintain a desired ion energy distribution.

Claim (Index 4):
The plasma processing system of  claim 3 , wherein the other component of the plasma processing system is a matching network coupled between the process chamber and the one or more RF sources.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94521
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14837512', '11733767', '11410717', '11733858', '14334866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7495415391618776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943753937289347
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7240249246185834
- Mean Citation Score: 227.778402
- Max Citation Score: 236.17891
- Similarity Product: 178.90334064491154

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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