PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053083
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["427", "535000"]

Abstract:
Methods are disclosed to provide arrays of substantially oxide-free or uncontrolled oxide-free structures, such as titanium nanotubes or microwells. In one aspect, the method includes plasma treating the structure having an oxide layer thereon to weaken the bonds in the oxide layer and then bombarding the oxide layer having weakened bonds with hydrogen radicals to remove the oxide layer to form a titanium layer. The cyclic plasma treatment and hydrogen radical exposure processes are generally repeated until the oxide layer is removed from the structure. Arrays of titanium structures manufactured according to the described methods are well controlled and have improved device performance since the oxide layer has been removed and the signal-to-noise ratio of the device has been optimized for improved sensing.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , wherein the one or more filaments are heated to a temperature between about 1,200\u00b0 and about 1,700\u00b0 C., a flow rate of the hydrogen gas is between about 100 sccm and about 500 sccm, and a process chamber pressure is between about 0.1 T and about 1.0 T.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67532
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16043998', '14533389', '13672469', '12688154', '14464475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.778733824892211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5134261365143749
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7522030560544274
- Mean Citation Score: 203.257016
- Max Citation Score: 259.70535
- Similarity Product: 190.456476393056

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

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