PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16237407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "773000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides an interconnect formed on a substrate and methods for forming the interconnect on the substrate. In one embodiment, the method for forming an interconnect on a substrate includes depositing a barrier layer on the substrate, depositing a transition layer on the barrier layer, and depositing an etch-stop layer on the transition layer, wherein the transition layer shares a common element with the barrier layer, and wherein the transition layer shares a common element with the etch-stop layer.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein treating the interconnect with a small molecule penetration process comprises:\n annealing the interconnect in a forming gas (N 2  and H 2 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15186436', '15075039', '15140955', '15285011', '10741422']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9149990638458582
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5194651440251205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8754456718637844
- Mean Citation Score: 200.009888
- Max Citation Score: 266.31863
- Similarity Product: 166.91783437598826

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test