PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981191
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
Photodiode structures and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a waveguide structure in a dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a Ge material in proximity to the waveguide structure in a back end of the line (BEOL) metal layer. The method further includes crystallizing the Ge material into a crystalline Ge structure by a low temperature annealing process with a metal layer in contact with the Ge material.

Claim (Index 3):
The structure of  claim 1 , wherein the single crystalline Ge structure is adjacent to the waveguide structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15408012', '15807054', '15408004', '14483584', '15971240']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9334845886134516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4754908373523479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8876852134873413
- Mean Citation Score: 237.637862
- Max Citation Score: 250.51344
- Similarity Product: 248.8441583080101

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

Dataset: test