PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16224302
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["204", "192120"]

Abstract:
A process for producing a radiation resistant nanocrystalline material having a polycrystalline microstructure from a starting material selected from metals and metal alloys. The process including depositing the starting material by physical vapor deposition onto a substrate that is maintained at a substrate temperature from about room temperature to about 850° C. to produce the nanocrystalline material. The process may also include heating the nanocrystalline material to a temperature of from about 450° C. to about 800° C. at a rate of temperature increase of from about 2° C./minute to about 30° C./minute; and maintaining the nanocrystalline material at the temperature of from about 450° C. to about 800° C. for a period from about 5 minutes to about 35 minutes. The nanocrystalline materials produced by the above process are also described. The nanocrystalline materials produced by the process are resistant to radiation damage.

Claim (Index 34):
A process for producing a radiation resistant nanocrystalline material that has a polycrystalline microstructure from a starting material selected from the group consisting of Cr, Ni, Mn, P, S, Si, Co, Al, Zr, Hf, W, Fe, Fe\u2014Zr, Cu, Cu\u2014Ni, Cu\u2014Li, Al\u2014Li, Mo\u2014Re, Fe\u2014Cr\u2014Ni, austenitic stainless steel, zirconium alloys and nickel based alloys, the process comprising a step of:\n depositing the starting material by physical vapor deposition onto a substrate that is maintained at a substrate temperature of from about 20\u00b0 C. to about 850\u00b0 C. to produce the nanocrystalline material, wherein the physical vapor deposition is magnetron sputtering deposition and\n a) the magnetron sputtering deposition uses a direct current power with a sputtering power in a range of from about 50 Watts to about 600 Watts, or \n b) the magnetron sputtering deposition uses a radio frequency power with a sputtering power in a range of from about 20 Watts to about 300 Watts, or \n c) the magnetron sputtering deposition uses a sputtering bias in a range from about 1 Watt to about 5 Watts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11381387', '10892736', '11099081', '11418273', '12003224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7845368078378765
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852197140597611
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.754605098460065
- Mean Citation Score: 209.465862
- Max Citation Score: 216.83194
- Similarity Product: 154.51517555129172

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

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