PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "763000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming conductive structures for a semiconductor device includes depositing a reflow liner on walls of trenches formed in a dielectric layer and depositing a reflow material on the reflow liner. The reflow material is reflowed to collect in a lower portion of the trenches. The depositing and the reflowing steps are repeated until the trenches are aggregately filled with the reflow material. The reflow material is planarized to form conductive structures in the trenches.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for forming conductive structures for a semiconductor device, comprising:\n depositing a reflow liner on walls of patterned features formed in a dielectric layer; conformally depositing a reflow material on the reflow liner; reflowing the reflow material without reflowing the reflow liner to collect the reflow material in portions of the patterned features that the reflow liner is not present on; repeating the conformally depositing and the reflowing steps until the patterned features are aggregately filled with the reflow material; and forming an overburden layer of the reflow material over the aggregately filled patterned features.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92857
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15467113', '15813600', '14967618', '15592291', '15202656']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9209606645400328
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5829355236571503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8871581504517445
- Mean Citation Score: 309.1791540000001
- Max Citation Score: 459.99237
- Similarity Product: 370.94187804977776

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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