PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "624000"]

Abstract:
According to an exemplary embodiment, a method of forming an isolation layer is provided. The method includes the following operations: providing a substrate; providing a vertical structure having a first layer over the substrate; providing a first interlayer dielectric over the first layer; performing CMP on the first interlayer dielectric; and etching back the first interlayer dielectric and the first layer to form the isolation layer corresponding to a source of the vertical structure.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the etching back uses wet etching or plasma etching.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14303791', '15437962', '16047079', '13475245', '14932777']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8559260882184152
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795130546558515
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8182847848621588
- Mean Citation Score: 174.315902
- Max Citation Score: 249.15733
- Similarity Product: 240.84532156119343

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

Dataset: test