PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "653000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of methods and apparatus for filling a feature disposed in a substrate are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for filling a feature disposed in a substrate includes (a) depositing a metal within the feature to a first predetermined thickness in a first process chamber; (b) depositing the metal within the feature to a second predetermined thickness in a second process chamber; (c) etching the metal deposited in (b) to remove an overhang of the metal at a top of the feature in a third process chamber different than the first and second process chambers; and (d) subsequent to (c), filling the feature with the metal in a fourth process chamber different than the first and third process chambers.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein (c) is performed between 1 and 10 times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64151
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13536095', '15711169', '15157303', '12122614', '14803578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8510250139028529
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5161275617159797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8175352686841656
- Mean Citation Score: 206.138642
- Max Citation Score: 214.53215
- Similarity Product: 122.310841831848

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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