PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008585
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["250", "251000"]

Abstract:
A method of processing a trench, via, hole, recess, void, or other feature that extends a depth into a substrate to a base or bottom and has an opening by irradiation with an accelerated neutral beam derived from an accelerated gas cluster ion beam for processing materials at the base or bottom of the opening.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for processing a trench structure having a proximate opening and a distal base or bottom material therein having an exposed surface accessible through said opening via the trench structure interior, comprising the steps of:\n providing a reduced pressure chamber; forming a gas cluster ion beam comprising gas cluster ions within the reduced pressure chamber; accelerating the gas cluster ions to form an accelerated gas cluster ion beam along a beam path within the reduced pressure chamber; promoting fragmentation and/or dissociation of at least a portion of the accelerated gas cluster ions along the beam path by increasing the range of velocities of ions in the accelerated gas cluster ion beam; removing charged particles from the beam path to form an accelerated neutral beam along the beam path in the reduced pressure chamber; holding a workpiece comprising the trench structure in the beam path; and treating the base material surface by directing the neutral beam path through the trench structure opening and toward the surface base or bottom material to irradiate all or part of the said surface of the base or bottom material of the trench structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45238
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14571533', '15047553', '14466242', '13215514', '14496412']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7857535985173093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5591184359619464
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.763090082261773
- Mean Citation Score: 435.782374
- Max Citation Score: 440.87967
- Similarity Product: 416.79195159957465

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

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