PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["216", "067000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for transferring substrates and confining a processing environment in a chamber. One embodiment of the present invention provides a hoop assembly for using a processing chamber. The hoop assembly includes a confinement ring defining a confinement region therein, and three or more lifting fingers attached to the hoop. The three or more lifting fingers are configured to support a substrate outside the inner volume of the confinement ring.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for processing a substrate, comprising:\n transferring a substrate through an opening of a processing chamber to three or more lifting fingers of a hoop assembly is disposed in the processing chamber, wherein the hoop assembly comprises:\n a confinement ring defining a confinement region therein; and \n the three or more lifting fingers extending below the confinement ring, wherein each of the three or more lifting fingers has a contact tip positioned radially inward from the confinement ring to form a substrate support surface below and spaced apart from the confinement region defined by the confinement ring; \n lowering the hoop assembly to transfer the substrate from the lifting fingers to a substrate support pedestal assembly disposed in the processing chamber; positioning the hoop assembly in a processing position wherein the confinement region is at least immediately above the substrate disposed on the substrate support pedestal assembly with the confinement ring shielding the opening; and processing the substrate by supplying a processing gas to the confinement region with the hoop assembly in the processing position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7234
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13985843', '14002087', '13629267', '15611756', '15222689']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7242555967543884
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5352394789707383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7053539849760234
- Mean Citation Score: 242.62455
- Max Citation Score: 369.25052
- Similarity Product: 262.95151537138696

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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