PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189329
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["315", "111210"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods controlling ion energy within a plasma chamber are described. One of the systems includes an upper electrode coupled to a sinusoidal RF generator for receiving a sinusoidal signal and a nonsinusoidal RF generator for generating a nonsinusoidal signal. The system further includes a power amplifier coupled to the nonsinusoidal RF generator. The power amplifier is used for amplifying the nonsinusoidal signal to generate an amplified signal. The system includes a filter coupled to the power amplifier. The filter is used for filtering the amplified signal using a filtering signal to generate a filtered signal. The system includes a chuck coupled to the filter. The chuck faces at least a portion of the upper electrode and includes a lower electrode. The lower electrode is used for receiving the filtered signal to facilitate achieving ion energy at the chuck to be between a lower threshold and an upper threshold.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing the filtered nonsinusoidal RF signal to the lower electrode is performed to adjust ion energy within the plasma chamber to be between a lower threshold and an upper threshold, wherein the upper threshold is greater than the lower threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83929
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261738', '13930138', '11773650', '15867082', '14636007']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7171632206877191
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6091488218053911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7063617807994863
- Mean Citation Score: 337.781962
- Max Citation Score: 520.1773
- Similarity Product: 485.167527154982

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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