PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206348
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["438", "269000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment method includes forming a patterned etch mask over a target layer and patterning the target layer using the patterned etch mask as a mask to form a patterned target layer. The method further includes performing a first cleaning process on the patterned etch mask and the patterned target layer, the first cleaning process including a first solution. The method additionally includes performing a second cleaning process to remove the patterned etch mask and form an exposed patterned target layer, the second cleaning process including a second solution. The method also includes performing a third cleaning process on the exposed patterned target layer, and performing a fourth cleaning process on the exposed patterned target layer, the fourth cleaning process comprising the first solution.

Claim (Index 9):
A method, comprising:\n forming a patterned etch mask over a target layer; patterning the target layer using the patterned etch mask as a mask to form a patterned target layer, the patterning causing a first residue to form on the patterned target layer; cleaning the patterned target layer in a first cleaning process, the first cleaning process removing a first portion of the first residue, the first cleaning process using a first cleaning solution; cleaning the patterned target layer in a second cleaning process, the second cleaning process removing the patterned etch mask and altering the second portion of the first residue into a second residue, the second cleaning process using a second cleaning solution different than the first cleaning solution; and performing a static discharge process on the patterned target layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.38462
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15796398', '15665682', '15725805', '15641009', '15184315']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.845639617060082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.491524104445864
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8102280657986601
- Mean Citation Score: 185.931524
- Max Citation Score: 263.3578
- Similarity Product: 231.6945692300916

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