PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957111
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["324", "754250"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and an associated method. The apparatus includes a chuck, an array of three or more ultrasonic sensors, a ceramic ring surrounding the chuck, and a controller connected to the ultrasonic sensors. The chuck is configured to removeably hold a substrate for processing. Each ultrasonic sensor may send a respective ultrasonic sound wave to a respective preselected peripheral region of the substrate and receive a respective return ultrasonic sound wave from the preselected peripheral region. The controller may compare a measured position of the substrate on the chuck to a specified placement of the substrate on the chuck based on a measured elapsed time between sending the ultrasonic sound wave and receiving the return ultrasonic sound wave for each ultrasonic sensor. The method compares a measured position of the substrate on the chuck to a specified position on the chuck.

Claim (Index 17):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the chuck and the three or more ultrasonic sensors are in a process chamber

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490175', '14183631', '12117061', '14171874', '10604142']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5589472329041288
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.53310555741291
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5563630653550069
- Mean Citation Score: 240.53817200000003
- Max Citation Score: 382.34348
- Similarity Product: 289.822243716135

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

Dataset: test