U.S. Patent Classes & Classifications Covered in this Patent Portfolio: Class 430: Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, Or Product Thereof This is the generic class for: (1) Forming the likeness of an object, or an instrumented or discernible phenomenon, in a chemically defined receiver or in a receiver wherein radiation produces a chemical reaction, by use of radiation. (2) Finishing an image by chemical processing regardless how formed. (3) A radiation sensitive receiver, composition, or product disclosed solely for radiation imagery chemistry, and process of making same. (4) A nonradiation sensitive-receiver, composition, or product. (5) An imaged product by a process or employing a receiver, composition, or product.Subclass 270.1: Radiation sensitive composition or product or process of making Subclass 290: Light scattering or refractive index image formation Subclass 296: Electron beam imaging Subclass 311: Making electrical device Subclass 313: With formation of resist image, and etching of substrate or material deposition Subclass 319: Named electrical device Subclass 322: Forming nonplanar surface Subclass 325: Post image treatment to produce elevated pattern Subclass 327: Processing feature prior to imaging Subclass 330: Including heating Subclass 5: Radiation mask
Class 216: Etching A Substrate: Processes Chemical etching processes for treating articles of commerce or intermediate articles not otherwise provided for in which one of the manufacturing steps includes a chemical etching step (use of an etchant) and wherein the material treated is not completely removed.Subclass 67: Using plasma
Class 716: Data Processing: Design And Analysis Of Circuit Or Semiconductor Mask This class provides for electrical data processing apparatus and corresponding methods for the following subject matter: for sketching, designing, and analyzing circuit components; for planning, designing, analyzing, and devising a template used for etching circuit pattern on semiconductor wafers.Subclass 21: Pattern exposure
Class 250: Radiant Energy This class provides for all methods and apparatus for using, generating, controlling or detecting radiant energy, combinations including such methods or apparatus, subcombinations of same and accessories therefore not classifiable elsewhere.Subclass 492.21: Ion bombardment Subclass 492.22: Pattern control
Class 378: X-Ray Or Gamma Ray Systems Or Devices This is the generic class for apparatus and corresponding processes involving the generation or use of electromagnetic radiation within the X-ray spectrum. Methods, systems, and elements with specific features characteristic of X-ray applications are classified here.Subclass 35: Pattern mask
Class 438: Semiconductor Device Manufacturing: Process This class provides for manufacturing a semiconductor containing a solid-state device for the following purposes: (a) conducting or modifying an electrical current, (b) storing electrical energy for subsequent discharge within a microelectronic integrated circuit, or (c) converting electromagnetic wave energy to electrical energy or electrical energy to electromagnetic energy. Also operations involving: (1) coating a substrate with a semiconductive material, or (2) coating a semiconductive substrate or substrate containing a semiconductive region. It also provides for operations involving etching a semiconductive substrate or etching a substrate containing a semiconductive region. The class provides for packaging or treatment of packaged semiconductor.Subclass 485: Deposition utilizing plasma (e.g., glow discharge, etc.) Subclass 513: Plasma (e.g., glow discharge, etc.) Subclass 710: By creating electric field (e.g., plasma, glow discharge, etc.) Subclass 717: Utilizing multilayered mask Subclass 798: Ionized irradiation (e.g., corpuscular or plasma treatment, etc.) Subclass 9: Plasma etching
Class 700: Data Processing: Generic Control Systems Or Specific Applications This class is structured into two main divisions: (1)for the combination of a data processing or calculating computer apparatus (or corresponding methods for performing data processing or calculating operations) AND a device or apparatus controlled thereby, the entirety hereinafter referred to as a "control system".
(2)for data processing or calculating computer apparatus (or corresponding methods for performing data processing or calculating operations) wherein the data processing or calculating computer apparatus is designed for or utilized in a particular art device, system, process, or environment, or is utilized for the solution of a particular problem in a field other than mathematics (arithmetic processing per se is classified elsewhere).Subclass 120: Stereolithography Subclass 121: Integrated circuit production or semiconductor fabrication
Class 427: Coating Processes This is the generic class for: A. applying or obtaining a coating on a surface. The coating may be hard or soft, permanent or transitory, supplied solely by extraneous materials or supplied wholly or in part by the base material. B. impregnating a base by causing a coating material to extend or penetrate into the base material, or into the interstices of a porous, cellular or foraminous material. C. taking preparatory treatments of the base material, subsequent treatments of the coated base material and other ancillary noncoating operations claimed, per se, processes limited to etching for making a base more compatible with, or adherent to, the coating wherein the base is the substrate (work) onto which a coating is applied are included.Subclass 372.2: Heating or drying (e.g., polymerizing, vulcanizing, curing, etc.) Subclass 385.5: Resin, resin precursor, rubber, or hardenable oil-containing coating
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