PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "653000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a barrier layer over a dielectric layer, a concentration of an impurity in the barrier layer increasing as the barrier layer extends away from the dielectric layer; and performing a plasma process to treat the barrier layer.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 5 , wherein an atomic percentage of the impurity in the first precursor is larger than that of the second precursor, wherein the first mixing ratio is smaller than the second mixing ratio.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53125
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12002780', '10738177', '15849253', '11807178', '15411892']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8677640214025949
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857266807487267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8295602873372081
- Mean Citation Score: 168.076898
- Max Citation Score: 173.69397
- Similarity Product: 117.74856345210314

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

Dataset: test