PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16081404
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "506000"]

Abstract:
Methods and architectures for self-aligned build-up of patterned features. An initial patterned feature aspect ratio may be maintained or increased, for example to mitigate erosion of the feature during one or more subtractive device fabrication processes. A patterned feature height may be increased without altering an effective spacing between adjacent features that may be further relied upon, for example to further pattern an underlying material. A patterned feature may be conformally capped with a material, such as a metal or dielectric, in a self-aligned manner, for example to form a functional device layer on an initial pattern having a suitable space width-to-line height aspect ratio without the use of a masked etch to define the cap.

Claim (Index 30):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein:\n the patterning defines the pair of features to have a first line space-to-line height aspect ratio equal to a ratio of a first lateral width of the space at a base of the feature to a first height of the sidewalls; depositing the first material layer reduces the lateral width of the space to a second lateral width; and removing the regions of the first material layer increases the second lateral width of the space back to the first lateral width of the space while increasing the first sidewall height by at least a thickness of the first material layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73611
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11821422', '14220814', '11545903', '11142509', '14627591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8971946937002745
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840258658206406
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8558778109123112
- Mean Citation Score: 136.22195200000002
- Max Citation Score: 139.58733999999998
- Similarity Product: 95.58753412008758

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