PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876472
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "338300"]

Abstract:
A self-contained metrology wafer carrier systems and methods of measuring one or more characteristics of semiconductor wafers are provided. A wafer carrier system includes, for instance, a housing configured for transport within the automated material handling system, the housing having a support configured to support a semiconductor wafer in the housing, and a metrology system disposed within the housing, the metrology system operable to measure at least one characteristic of the wafer, the metrology system comprising a sensing unit and a computing unit operably connected to the sensing unit. Also provided are methods of measuring one or more characteristics of a semiconductor wafer within the wafer carrier systems of the present disclosure.

Claim (Index 31):
The system of  claim 21 , wherein the sensed data is relatable to film thickness, film temperature, distribution of heat on the wafer, film composition, electrical conductivity, film optical constants, surface roughness, wafer topography, wafer bow, defects on the wafer surface, number of particles on the wafer surface, and reflectivity of the surface of the wafer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32692
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15193502', '13874764', '13409540', '12921972', '15015578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7205454969914874
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.518802968173402
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7003712441096789
- Mean Citation Score: 208.93624
- Max Citation Score: 330.33798
- Similarity Product: 268.7488642575431

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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