PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16311242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["427", "248100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for subjecting a surface of a substrate to successive surface reactions of precursors according to the principles of atomic layer deposition. The method including subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first precursor in a first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in a second precursor zone. The method further includes changing the first precursor in the first precursor zone to a subsequent precursor which is different than the first and second precursors and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the subsequent precursor in the first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone.

Claim (Index 32):
The method according to  claim 26 , wherein the primary deposition step comprises:\n A) forming the first coating layer on the surface of the substrate, the forming of the first coating layer comprising sub-steps:\n a) subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first precursor in the first precursor zone; \n b) subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone after sub-step a); and \n c) performing sub-steps a) and b) one or more times successively until the first coating layer is formed on the surface of the substrate, \n the first changing step comprising:\n B) replacing the first precursor in the first precursor zone to the first subsequent precursor which is different than the first and second precursors, and \n the alternate deposition step comprising:\n C) forming the subsequent coating layer on the surface of the substrate, the forming of the subsequent coating layer comprising sub-steps:\n d) subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first subsequent precursor in the first precursor zone; \n e) subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone after sub-step d); and \n f) performing sub-steps d) and e) one or more times successively until the subsequent coating layer is formed, the subsequent coating layer being different than the first coating layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15533825', '13817977', '14405995', '14900816', '13817082']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.803798931801878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5060861066869138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7740276492903816
- Mean Citation Score: 238.84834
- Max Citation Score: 255.25198
- Similarity Product: 178.1158156256604

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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