PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["216", "066000"]

Abstract:
A method for shallow etching a substrate surface forms a shallow modified substrate layer overlying unmodified substrate using an accelerated neutral beam and etches the modified layer, stopping at the unmodified substrate beneath, producing controlled shallow etched substrate surfaces.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the acceleration step accelerates the gas cluster ions through a potential of from 5 to 50 kV.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15047553', '14571533', '14466242', '13215514', '14496412']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8559079135444078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5729788911584107
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8276150113058081
- Mean Citation Score: 488.386416
- Max Citation Score: 511.33746
- Similarity Product: 397.2806230940902

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