PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046870
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "760000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe removing seams and voids in metal interconnects and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, a method includes conformally depositing a metal into a recess disposed in a dielectric material to form an interconnect, wherein conformally depositing the metal creates a seam or void in the deposited metal within or directly adjacent to the recess and heating the metal in the presence of a reactive gas to remove the seam or void, wherein the metal has a melting point that is greater than a melting point of copper. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claim (Index 39):
The method of  claim 37 , wherein heating the metal comprises exposing the metal to a temperature between 300\u00b0 C. and 800\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67188
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15126575', '15614306', '16021352', '14137526', '13854449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.915244150404715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4663882130100774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8703585566652512
- Mean Citation Score: 137.51340520000002
- Max Citation Score: 179.22002
- Similarity Product: 147.36894006199836

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

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