PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876472
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "338300"]

Abstract:
A self-contained metrology wafer carrier systems and methods of measuring one or more characteristics of semiconductor wafers are provided. A wafer carrier system includes, for instance, a housing configured for transport within the automated material handling system, the housing having a support configured to support a semiconductor wafer in the housing, and a metrology system disposed within the housing, the metrology system operable to measure at least one characteristic of the wafer, the metrology system comprising a sensing unit and a computing unit operably connected to the sensing unit. Also provided are methods of measuring one or more characteristics of a semiconductor wafer within the wafer carrier systems of the present disclosure.

Claim (Index 35):
The system of  claim 34 , wherein:\n the emitting portion comprising:\n a laser; \n a polarizer operably connected to the laser; and \n a focuser operably connected to the polarizer; and \n the collecting portion comprising:\n a detector; \n an analyzer operably connected to the detector; and \n a lens collector operably connected to the analyzer; and \n wherein the focuser and the lens collector are operable for use in measuring a portion of the semiconductor wafer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32692
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15193502', '13874764', '13409540', '12921972', '15015578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6959634878194425
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5181891067562763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6781860497131259
- Mean Citation Score: 208.93624
- Max Citation Score: 330.33798
- Similarity Product: 251.5338637877584

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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