PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16275008
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["315", "111210"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for multi-level pulsing of a parameter and multi-level pulsing of a frequency of a radio frequency (RF) signal are described. The parameter is pulsed from a low level to a high level while the frequency is pulsed from a low level to a high level. The parameter and the frequency are simultaneously pulsed to increase a rate of processing a wafer, to increase mask selectivity, and to reduce angular spread of ions within a plasma chamber.

Claim (Index 18):
A system comprising:\n a radio frequency (RF) generator configured to generate an RF signal; an impedance matching circuit coupled to the RF generator via an RF cable, wherein the impedance matching circuit is configured to receive the RF signal via the RF cable to output a modified RF signal; a plasma chamber coupled to the impedance matching circuit to receive the modified RF signal; and a host computer coupled to the RF generator, wherein the host computer is configured to:\n generate a digital pulse signal; \n send the digital pulse signal to the RF generator to pulse a first parameter level of the RF signal to a second parameter level of the RF signal and to pulse the second parameter level of the RF signal to a third parameter level of the RF signal; \n generate another digital pulse signal; and \n send the other digital pulse signal to the RF generator to pulse a first frequency level of the RF signal to a second frequency level of the RF signal, wherein the first frequency level is pulsed to the second frequency level concurrently with the pulsing of the first parameter level to the second parameter level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15928029', '15928039', '15693134', '14570859', '16040502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7011220678815538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5680029268275226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6878101537761507
- Mean Citation Score: 314.31929
- Max Citation Score: 445.33447
- Similarity Product: 366.9536394484902

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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