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 18):
The method of  claim 15 ,\n wherein the second series of pulses is consecutive to the first series of pulses, wherein the first filtered nonsinusoidal RF signal has a fifth series of pulses and a sixth series of pulses, wherein the fifth series of pulses is another occurrence of the first series of pulses and the sixth series of pulses is another occurrence of the second series of pulses, wherein the fifth series of pulses is consecutive to the second series of pulses, and the sixth series of pulses is consecutive to the fifth series of pulses, wherein the fourth series of pulses is consecutive to the third series of pulses, wherein the second filtered nonsinusoidal RF signal has a seventh series of pulses and an eighth series of pulses, wherein the seventh series of pulses is another occurrence of the third series of pulses and the eighth series of pulses is another occurrence of the fourth series of pulses, wherein the seventh series of pulses is consecutive to the fourth series of pulses, and the eighth series of pulses is consecutive to the seventh series of pulses.

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): 0.7248574066297944
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5867158962408123
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7110432555908962
- Mean Citation Score: 337.781962
- Max Citation Score: 520.1773
- Similarity Product: 379.7996962134957

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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