PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986197
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "005000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods to deposit a film using a batch processing chamber with a plurality of heating zones are described. The film is deposited on one or more substrates and the uniformity of the deposition thickness is determined at a plurality of points. The heating zones set points are applied to a sensitivity matrix and new temperature or power set points for the heating zones are determined and set. One or more substrates are processed using the new set points and the thickness uniformity is determined and may be adjusted again to increase the uniformity.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of forming a film, the method comprising:\n depositing a film on a substrate using a predetermined processing method, the processing method including temperature or power set points for a plurality of heating zones; measuring a thickness of the film at a plurality of locations on the substrate and converting the plurality of thickness measurements to temperature; adjusting the temperature or power set points of at least one of the heating zones based on the plurality of thickness measurements, wherein adjusting the temperature or power set points comprises applying a sensitivity matrix to adjust at least one of the heating zones, the sensitivity matrix characterizing effects of changes in temperature or power set points for individual heating zones on deposited material thickness at the plurality of locations on the substrate; depositing a second film on a second substrate using the predetermined method with the adjusted temperature or power set points and measuring a thickness of the second film at the plurality of locations; and repeating adjusting the temperature or power set points, depositing a film and measuring the thickness at a plurality of locations on the substrate to lower a thickness non-uniformity of the deposited film.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02041
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15637772', '15092875', '14506317', '15816520', '11548598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8293114436379693
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5111761298196948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7974979122561419
- Mean Citation Score: 200.228872
- Max Citation Score: 209.39658
- Similarity Product: 123.59231565531492

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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