PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16025566
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["134", "021000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for treating the surface of a microelectronic substrate, and in particular, relate to an apparatus and method for scanning the microelectronic substrate through a cryogenic fluid mixture used to treat an exposed surface of the microelectronic substrate. The fluid mixture may be expanded through a nozzle to form an aerosol spray or gas cluster jet (GCJ) spray may impinge the microelectronic substrate and remove particles from the microelectronic substrate's surface. In one embodiment, the fluid mixture may be maintained to prevent liquid formation within the fluid mixture prior to passing the fluid mixture through the nozzle. The fluid mixture may include nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, xenon, krypton, carbon dioxide, or any combination thereof.

Claim (Index 25):
The method of  claim 23 , wherein the first and second pressurized and cooled liquid/gas mixtures are expanded into the process chamber at different times such that the first and second pressurized and cooled liquid/gas mixtures remove particle contamination from the substrate surface sequentially.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86301
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14876242', '14876214', '15197450', '15681105', '15078338']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8904467843762253
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5573060096511688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8571327069037196
- Mean Citation Score: 396.094512
- Max Citation Score: 465.3694
- Similarity Product: 327.73589045515064

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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