PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "017000"]

Abstract:
A method for measuring charging of a semiconductor wafer associated with processing the semiconductor wafer includes using a probe assembly at a charge monitoring module to measure a charge on the semiconductor wafer prior to processing the semiconductor wafer using a processing tool, the probe assembly being located proximate to a processing station of the processing tool; transferring the semiconductor wafer from the charge monitoring module to the processing station using an automated wafer handling apparatus; processing the semiconductor wafer at the processing station using the processing tool; transferring the processed wafer from the processing station back to the charge monitoring module; using the probe assembly at the charge monitoring module to measure a charge on the semiconductor wafer after processing the wafer; and analyzing the measured charge on the semiconductor wafer both before and after processing the semiconductor wafer to determine information about charging of the wafer due to processing the semiconductor wafer using the processing tool.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14 , further comprising making adjustments to the processing tool or to a processing step based on the charging pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.23529
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11191093', '11129322', '10371068', '14231533', '15193502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8168663439218746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5147634023147062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7866560497611578
- Mean Citation Score: 167.055064
- Max Citation Score: 174.70051999999995
- Similarity Product: 92.27227991049288

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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