PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053083
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["427", "535000"]

Abstract:
Methods are disclosed to provide arrays of substantially oxide-free or uncontrolled oxide-free structures, such as titanium nanotubes or microwells. In one aspect, the method includes plasma treating the structure having an oxide layer thereon to weaken the bonds in the oxide layer and then bombarding the oxide layer having weakened bonds with hydrogen radicals to remove the oxide layer to form a titanium layer. The cyclic plasma treatment and hydrogen radical exposure processes are generally repeated until the oxide layer is removed from the structure. Arrays of titanium structures manufactured according to the described methods are well controlled and have improved device performance since the oxide layer has been removed and the signal-to-noise ratio of the device has been optimized for improved sensing.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein the hot wire chemical vapor deposition process comprises:\n providing hydrogen gas into the process chamber; heating one or more filaments disposed in the process chamber to a temperature sufficient to dissociate the hydrogen gas; and exposing the plasma-treated oxide layer to the dissociated hydrogen gas to remove at least a portion of the plasma-treated oxide layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67532
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16043998', '14533389', '13672469', '12688154', '14464475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7795865035474422
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5075804545511293
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7523858986478109
- Mean Citation Score: 203.257016
- Max Citation Score: 259.70535
- Similarity Product: 207.87977672826648

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

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