PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154018
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["438", "005000"]

Abstract:
A method for critical dimension control in which a substrate is received having an underlying layer and a patterned layer formed on the underlying layer, the patterned layer including radiation-sensitive material and a pattern of varying elevation with a first critical dimension. The method further includes applying an overcoat layer over the patterned layer, the overcoat layer containing a photo agent selected from a photosensitizer generator compound, a photosensitizer compound, a photoacid generator compound, a photoactive agent, an acid-containing compound, or a combination of two or more thereof. The overcoat layer is then exposed to electromagnetic radiation, wherein the dose of electromagnetic radiation incident upon different exposed regions of the substrate is varied, and then the overcoat layer and patterned layer are heated. The method further includes developing the overcoat layer and the patterned layer to alter the first critical dimension of the patterned layer to a second critical dimension.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the step of exposing the overcoat layer comprises exposing the overcoat layer to a scanning laser beam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29577
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15594187', '15594139', '14816587', '12430203', '12642018']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8467032185570282
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5896731623466811
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8210002129359936
- Mean Citation Score: 283.4241100000001
- Max Citation Score: 499.725
- Similarity Product: 413.2595397233963

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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