PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120485
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "620000"]

Abstract:
A wafer in accordance with various embodiments may include: at least one metallization structure including at least one opening; and at least one separation line region along which the wafer is to be diced, wherein the at least one separation line region intersects the at least one opening.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for processing a wafer, comprising:\n providing a wafer, the wafer comprising a intermetal dielectric (IMD) and a metallization layer, wherein the IMD layer is disposed over the metallization layer; removing at least a part of the IMD layer to form an opening in the IMD layer that exposes a portion of a top surface of the metallization layer; depositing a further metallization layer over the IMD layer and over at least the exposed portion of the top surface of the metallization layer; patterning the further metallization layer to form a metallization structure; and dicing the wafer along a separation line region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57576
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13651496', '15712373', '15447200', '15390767', '14964603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9095394755085978
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5065485373897366
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8692403816967118
- Mean Citation Score: 197.185992
- Max Citation Score: 277.10837000000004
- Similarity Product: 202.25132461307044

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

Dataset: test