PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897532
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["438", "637000"]

Abstract:
An opening is formed within a dielectric material overlying a semiconductor substrate. The opening may comprise a via portion and a trench portion. During the manufacturing process a treatment chemical is placed into contact with the exposed surfaces in order to release charges that have built up on the surfaces. By releasing the charges, a surface change potential difference is reduced, helping to prevent galvanic corrosion from occurring during further manufacturing.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first conductive region is electrically connected to an active area of a semiconductor substrate and wherein the second conductive region is electrically isolated from the active area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35088
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15058864', '12399372', '15871528', '14600452', '15593886']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8535158403331866
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864740608023705
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.816811662380105
- Mean Citation Score: 139.71384600000002
- Max Citation Score: 146.8485
- Similarity Product: 94.5235440579057

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