PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["315", "111210"]

Abstract:
A radio frequency power system includes a master RF generator and an auxiliary RF generator, wherein each generator outputs a respective RF signal. The master RF generator also outputs a RF control signal to the auxiliary RF generator, and the RF signal output by the auxiliary RF generator varies in accordance with the RF control signal. The auxiliary RF generator receives sense signals indicative of an electrical characteristic of the respective RF signals output by the master RF generator and the auxiliary RF generator. The auxiliary RF generator determines a phase difference between the RF signals. The sensed electrical characteristics and the phase are used independently or cooperatively to control the phase and amplitude of the RF signal output by the auxiliary RF generator. The auxiliary generator includes an inductive clamp circuit that returns energy reflected energy back from a coupling network to a variable resistive load.

Claim (Index 43):
A method of operating a RF power system, the method comprising:\n generating a first RF signal applied to a first electrode of a load; generating a second RF signal applied to a second electrode of the load; providing a DC rail voltage for driving a power amplifier generating the second RF signal and varying the DC rail voltage in order to control a RF voltage at the second electrode; and at least one of:\n varying a phase of the second RF signal in accordance with a phase difference between the first RF signal and the second RF signal, \n varying a DC rail voltage to control a RF voltage at the second electrode in accordance with an electrical characteristic of the second RF signal, wherein the DC rail voltage drives a power amplifier generating the second RF signal, or \n varying a phase of the second RF signal and the DC rail voltage in order to control the RF voltage at the second electrode, wherein the DC rail voltage powers the power amplifier, in accordance with both the phase difference between first RF signal and the second RF signal and the electrical characteristic of the second RF signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15236661', '14324540', '13403656', '14797347', '14837512']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7156595112055198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4851433098725607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.692607891072224
- Mean Citation Score: 224.046102
- Max Citation Score: 229.91838
- Similarity Product: 185.744908667822

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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