PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "369000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to capping processes and structures formed thereby. In an embodiment, a conductive feature, formed in a dielectric layer, has a metallic surface, and the dielectric layer has a dielectric surface. The dielectric surface is modified to be hydrophobic by performing a surface modification treatment. After modifying the dielectric surface, a capping layer is formed on the metallic surface by performing a selective deposition process. In another embodiment, a surface of a gate structure is exposed through a dielectric layer. A capping layer is formed on the surface of the gate structure by performing a selective deposition process.

Claim (Index 5):
The structure of  claim 4 , wherein the hydrophobic functional group is part of a monolayer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32653
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15945799', '14730444', '14132901', '14871580', '15859947']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8961926674180993
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5360228816258161
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8601756888388711
- Mean Citation Score: 157.400768
- Max Citation Score: 168.15991
- Similarity Product: 67.47846460426868

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

Dataset: test