PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16394724
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "703000"]

Abstract:
Processing methods comprising depositing a film on a substrate surface and in a surface feature with chemical planarization to remove the film from the substrate surface, leaving the film in the feature. A pillar is grown from the film so that the pillar grows orthogonally to the substrate surface.

Claim (Index 10):
A processing method comprising:\n providing a substrate with a substrate surface and a first film formed thereon, the substrate surface having at least one feature extending into the substrate from the substrate surface, the feature having a bottom and sidewalls, the first film comprising a metal and covering the substrate surface and filling the at least one feature; chemically planarizing the first film by sequentially oxidizing a top of the first film to form an oxidized first film on top of the first film and etching the oxidized first film to remove the oxidized first film, the sequential oxidizing and etching repeated to remove the first film from the substrate surface leaving the first film in the feature; and expanding the first film to grow a first pillar in the feature that extends from the feature orthogonally to the substrate surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15805764', '15805753', '15658846', '15718148', '14734222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.828618984750941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5086158987301443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7966186761488614
- Mean Citation Score: 214.186966
- Max Citation Score: 305.32315
- Similarity Product: 302.0412732226849

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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