PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977255
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "701000"]

Abstract:
A method may include providing a surface feature on a substrate, the surface feature comprising a feature shape a feature location, and a dimension along a first direction within a substrate plane; depositing a layer comprising a layer material on the surface feature; and directing ions in an ion exposure at an angle of incidence toward the substrate, the angle of incidence forming a non-zero angle with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane, wherein the ion exposure comprises the ions and reactive neutral species, the ion exposure reactively etching the layer material, wherein the ions impact a first portion of the surface feature and do not impact a second portion of the surface feature, and wherein an altered surface feature is generated, the altered surface feature differing from the surface feature in at least one of: the dimension along the first direction, the feature shape, or the feature location.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the layer material is removed from a bottom surface of the cavity after the etching.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15142526', '14749822', '14962642', '15296782', '14459813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8597449526556661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5208399007022942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.825854447460329
- Mean Citation Score: 223.661308
- Max Citation Score: 307.4987799999999
- Similarity Product: 220.3016284672308

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