PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957111
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["324", "754250"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and an associated method. The apparatus includes a chuck, an array of three or more ultrasonic sensors, a ceramic ring surrounding the chuck, and a controller connected to the ultrasonic sensors. The chuck is configured to removeably hold a substrate for processing. Each ultrasonic sensor may send a respective ultrasonic sound wave to a respective preselected peripheral region of the substrate and receive a respective return ultrasonic sound wave from the preselected peripheral region. The controller may compare a measured position of the substrate on the chuck to a specified placement of the substrate on the chuck based on a measured elapsed time between sending the ultrasonic sound wave and receiving the return ultrasonic sound wave for each ultrasonic sensor. The method compares a measured position of the substrate on the chuck to a specified position on the chuck.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the measured elapsed time between sending the ultrasonic sound wave and receiving the return ultrasonic sound wave for each ultrasonic sensor of the array of three or more ultrasonic sensors is

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490175', '14183631', '12117061', '14171874', '10604142']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5580129718861816
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5337191469291573
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5555835893904791
- Mean Citation Score: 240.53817200000003
- Max Citation Score: 382.34348
- Similarity Product: 318.8974535906529

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test