PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006402
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "658000"]

Abstract:
Methods for filling a substrate feature with a seamless tungsten fill are described. The methods include depositing a tungsten film, oxidizing the tungsten film to a tungsten oxide pillar, reducing the tungsten oxide film to a seamless tungsten gapfill and optionally depositing additional tungsten on the tungsten gapfill.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising selectively depositing additional tungsten on the tungsten gapfill to raise the top of the tungsten gapfill to be substantially coplanar with the first substrate surface outside of the feature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15658846', '15945117', '15805753', '15461847', '15621120']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.863337279107593
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043666984093998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8274402210377736
- Mean Citation Score: 209.990888
- Max Citation Score: 231.66866
- Similarity Product: 149.20247265645023

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