PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959008
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "781000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are described herein. A vacuum multi-chamber deposition tool can include a degas chamber with both a heating mechanism and a variable frequency microwave source. The methods described herein use variable frequency microwave radiation to increased quality and speed of the degas process without damaging the various components.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for processing a substrate, comprising:\n depositing an uncured layer comprising a polymer over a surface of a substrate; and performing a soft-cure of the uncured layer to form a soft-cured layer in a processing chamber, the soft-cure comprising heating at least the uncured layer to a degas temperature, the degas temperature being less than a hard-cure temperature for the uncured layer; and performing a hard-cure of the soft-cured layer in the processing chamber, the hard-cure comprises delivering microwave radiation at a variable frequency from a source of microwave radiation to the soft-cured layer to heat the soft-cured layer to the hard-cure temperature, wherein the variable frequency ranges from about 5.85 GHz to about 7.0 GHz.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32558
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14322484', '15399614', '13960236', '13506722', '14820152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8606085533872093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5432371003686604
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8288714080853545
- Mean Citation Score: 268.135406
- Max Citation Score: 392.44058
- Similarity Product: 368.660792841438

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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