PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16311242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["427", "248100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for subjecting a surface of a substrate to successive surface reactions of precursors according to the principles of atomic layer deposition. The method including subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first precursor in a first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in a second precursor zone. The method further includes changing the first precursor in the first precursor zone to a subsequent precursor which is different than the first and second precursors and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the subsequent precursor in the first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone.

Claim (Index 47):
The apparatus according to  claim 45 , wherein one of:\n the first precursor conduit and the first subsequent precursor conduit are connected to the one or more first precursor nozzles as separate conduits; or the apparatus further comprises a first zone supply conduit connected to both the first precursor conduit and the first subsequent precursor conduit and to the one or more first precursor nozzles for supplying the first precursor and the first subsequent precursor via the common first zone supply conduit; or the first precursor zone comprises one or more first precursor nozzles ( 30 ,  98 ) for supplying the first precursor and one or more first subsequent precursor nozzles for supplying the first subsequent precursor, the one or more first precursor nozzles ( 30 ,  98 ) being connected to the first precursor container via the first precursor conduit and the one or more first subsequent precursor nozzles being connected to the first subsequent precursor container via the first subsequent precursor conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15533825', '13817977', '14405995', '14900816', '13817082']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8216670016308522
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5100137102295087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7905016724907178
- Mean Citation Score: 238.84834
- Max Citation Score: 255.25198
- Similarity Product: 173.52308877189753

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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