PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875917
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["414", "217000"]

Abstract:
A buffer for use in semiconductor processing tools is disclosed. The buffer may be used to temporarily store wafers after processing operations are performed on those wafers. The buffer may include two side walls and a back wall interposed between the side walls. The side walls and the back wall may generally define an area within which the wafers may be stored in a stacked arrangement. Wafer support fins extending from the side walls and the back wall may extend into a wafer support region that overlaps with the edges of the wafers. Purge gas may be introduced in between each pair of wafers via purge gas ports located in one of the walls.

Claim (Index 15):
The buffer of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n an exhaust port; and a clean air inlet, wherein the clean air inlet is configured to flow gas across the opening and into the exhaust port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73913
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14523122', '15285843', '14517623', '14569293', '14479842']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8166393020244817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5755770872127455
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7925330805433081
- Mean Citation Score: 273.81989
- Max Citation Score: 517.1356
- Similarity Product: 382.4199504515648

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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