PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16400640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "786000"]

Abstract:
A method of descumming a dielectric layer is provided. In an embodiment the dielectric layer is deposited over a substrate, and a photoresist is applied, exposed, and developed after the photoresist has been applied. Once the pattern of the photoresist is transferred to the underlying dielectric layer, a descumming process is performed, wherein the descumming process utilizes a mixture of a carbon-containing precursor, a descumming precursor, and a carrier gas. The mixture is ignited into a treatment plasma, and the treatment plasma is applied to the dielectric layer in order to descum the dielectric layer.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the treatment mixture further comprises a carrier gas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22917
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14989227', '15254771', '12688154', '15874278', '12147986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8527596737021576
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5023371781904915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.817717424150991
- Mean Citation Score: 163.023676
- Max Citation Score: 259.7488
- Similarity Product: 209.2929394294739

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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