PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964747
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["427", "577000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a layer, the method including providing a feedstock, the feedstock including a first component and a second component; ionizing at least part of the feedstock thereby forming a plasma, wherein the plasma includes constituents selected from: the first component, derivatives of the first component, ions of the first component, ions of derivatives of the first component, the second component, derivatives of the second component, ions of the second component, ions of derivatives of the second component, or combinations thereof, and wherein the individual identities, individual ratios, total quantities, or any combination thereof of the first and second component in the feedstock can modulate the makeup of the plasma; forming a beam from the plasma; and forming a layer from the beam, wherein the layer includes at least some portion of at least the first or the second component.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the second component comprises a noble gas, nitrogen (N 2 ), oxygen (O 2 ), a hydrocarbon, hydrogen (H 2 ), or combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.39583
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13756669', '14688393', '12417880', '12733160', '12020094']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8225595565326466
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5046614580914796
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.79076974668853
- Mean Citation Score: 139.671832
- Max Citation Score: 143.6837
- Similarity Product: 99.81809447958469

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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