PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "292000"]

Abstract:
A method for fabricating an image sensor array having a first group of photodiodes for detecting light at visible wavelengths a second group of photodiodes for detecting light at infrared or near-infrared wavelengths, the method including forming a germanium-silicon layer for the second group of photodiodes on a first semiconductor donor wafer; defining a first interconnect layer on the germanium-silicon layer; defining integrated circuitry for controlling pixels of the image sensor array on a semiconductor carrier wafer; defining a second interconnect layer on the semiconductor carrier wafer; bonding the first interconnect layer with the second interconnect layer; defining the pixels of an image sensor array on a second semiconductor donor wafer; defining a third interconnect layer on the image sensor array; and bonding the third interconnect layer with the germanium-silicon layer.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein growing the germanium-silicon layer on the one or more recesses for the second group of photodiodes further comprises:\n polishing the germanium-silicon layer to planarize the germanium-silicon layer to be fully embedded in the one or more recesses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04348
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15713251', '15228282', '15712777', '15248618', '15803591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9483003510108104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5498916477586873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.908459480685598
- Mean Citation Score: 377.280602
- Max Citation Score: 457.84232
- Similarity Product: 394.0092193374157

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