PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "072000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are related to systems and methods for forming vias in a substrate, and more particularly to systems and methods for reducing substrate surface disruption during via formation.

Claim (Index 41):
A method for processing a substrate, the method comprising:\n performing a via pre-definition on a substrate, wherein at least one defined path into the substrate is created; forming a non-via structure disposed over a selected surface of the substrate after performing the via pre-definition, wherein a location of the defined path on the selected surface of the substrate is not covered by the non-via structure; and after forming the non-via structure on the substrate, etching the substrate from the selected surface, wherein substrate material around the predefined path at the selected surface is removed at a higher rate than substrate material at other locations on the substrate, and wherein a via is formed at a location corresponding to the defined path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.30435
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11129105', '11777797', '11551286', '12139068', '12659910']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.90552500723341
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814532889408513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8631178354041543
- Mean Citation Score: 125.9551432
- Max Citation Score: 127.80169
- Similarity Product: 80.53068011797905

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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