PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054457
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "049000"]

Abstract:
A process for etching a substrate comprising polycrystalline silicon to form silicon nanostructures includes depositing metal on top of the substrate and contacting the metallized substrate with an etchant aqueous solution comprising about 2 to about 49 weight percent HF and an oxidizing agent.

Claim (Index 2):
The process of  claim 1 , further comprising selecting a method of metal deposition and selecting the oxidizing agent such that the process results in formation of an array of nanostructures oriented substantially vertically relative to the top of the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14924273', '14444361', '12423623', '13305649', '14467029']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8985402263374245
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4662708052210796
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.85531328422579
- Mean Citation Score: 199.157528
- Max Citation Score: 221.71686
- Similarity Product: 220.2652325804186

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