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 9):
A method for processing a substrate, comprising:\n lowering a hoop assembly to transfer a substrate from three or more lifting fingers to a substrate support pedestal assembly disposed in a processing chamber, the hoop assembly comprising:\n a hoop body; \n a confinement ring defining a confinement region therein, the confinement region at least immediately above the substrate disposed on the substrate support pedestal assembly, and the confinement ring positioned at least partially within the hoop body; and \n the three or more lifting fingers extending below the hoop body and the confinement ring, each of the three or more lifting fingers having a contact tip positioned radially inward from the confinement ring to form a substrate support surface below and spaced apart from the confinement region; \n positioning the hoop assembly in a processing position; 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): 0.7240788844400037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5351897767800036
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7051899736740037
- Mean Citation Score: 242.62455
- Max Citation Score: 369.25052
- Similarity Product: 271.87105544816967

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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