PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751964
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["216", "041000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing a nanostructured substrate comprising an array of protruding nanostructures, which method comprises at least the following steps: a) providing a primary substrate; b) depositing at least one layer of a material capable to be removed by means of reactive ion etching (RIE) onto said primary substrate which layer comprises a predetermined gradient of its thickness; c) depositing a nanostructured etching mask onto the graded layer deposited in step b); d) generating protruding structures, in particular nanopillars, in the graded layer deposited in step b) by means of reactive ion etching (RIE), wherein simultaneously at least 2, preferably 3, predetermined continuous gradients of geometric parameters of the protruding structures are generated on the same substrate—More specifically, the geometric parameters are selected from the group comprising the height, diameter and spacing—of the protruding nanostructures. A further aspect of the invention relates to a nanostructured substrate comprising an array of protruding nanostructures obtainable by the method as outlined above. In a preferred embodiment of said nanostructured substrate, each of the protruding nanostructures simultaneously represents an element of 3 continuous gradients of the height, diameter and spacing of said protruding nanostructures.

Claim (Index 2):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the layer deposited in step b) comprises a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional gradient of its thickness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26531
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13518594', '15354086', '14114819', '13350734', '13882631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7612191826287188
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5002894037156188
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7351262047374089
- Mean Citation Score: 176.48334600000004
- Max Citation Score: 199.82426
- Similarity Product: 117.80639614189148

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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