PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046870
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "760000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe removing seams and voids in metal interconnects and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, a method includes conformally depositing a metal into a recess disposed in a dielectric material to form an interconnect, wherein conformally depositing the metal creates a seam or void in the deposited metal within or directly adjacent to the recess and heating the metal in the presence of a reactive gas to remove the seam or void, wherein the metal has a melting point that is greater than a melting point of copper. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claim (Index 38):
The method of  claim 37 , wherein conformally depositing the metal comprises depositing at least one of ruthenium (Ru), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), cobalt (Co), rhenium (Re), iron (Fe), osmium (Os), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir), nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), chromium (Cr) or technetium (Tc).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67188
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15126575', '15614306', '16021352', '14137526', '13854449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9160995354920838
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4557571341983359
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.870065295362709
- Mean Citation Score: 137.51340520000002
- Max Citation Score: 179.22002
- Similarity Product: 160.17431642568354

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

Dataset: test