PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "459000"]

Abstract:
An interconnect apparatus and a method of forming the interconnect apparatus is provided. Two substrates, such as wafers, dies, or a wafer and a die, are bonded together. A first mask is used to form a first opening extending partially to an interconnect formed on the first wafer. A dielectric liner is formed, and then another etch process is performed using the same mask. The etch process continues to expose interconnects formed on the first substrate and the second substrate. The opening is filled with a conductive material to form a conductive plug.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 3 , wherein the first liner is a dielectric liner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82456
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15076115', '14020370', '14135153', '15231419', '14316125']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9047985389227272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493171364471048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8636358214775594
- Mean Citation Score: 174.126504
- Max Citation Score: 198.29048
- Similarity Product: 143.8404521187687

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

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