PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16172947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "014000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment provides a method of predicting a thickness of an oxide layer of a silicon wafer including: aging a heat treatment furnace (furnace); measuring a thickness of each of the oxide layers after disposing a plurality of reference wafers in slots of a heat treatment boat in the furnace and forming oxide layers; and measuring a thickness of each of the oxide layers after disposing the plurality of reference wafers and test wafers in the slots of the heat treatment boat in the furnace and forming oxide layers.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of predicting a thickness of an oxide layer of a silicon wafer, the method comprising:\n aging a heat treatment furnace (furnace); and measuring a thickness of each of the oxide layers after disposing a plurality of reference wafers and test wafers in slots of a heat treatment boat in the furnace and forming oxide layers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11061407', '11080788', '10113291', '10544374', '16331079']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8290822646259012
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033889294539992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.796512931108711
- Mean Citation Score: 200.596624
- Max Citation Score: 230.81122
- Similarity Product: 161.32380836133004

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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