PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962398
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "637000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. A first patterned mask is formed on the substrate, the first patterned mask having a first opening therein. A second patterned mask is formed on the substrate in the first opening, the first patterned mask and the second patterned mask forming a combined patterned mask. The combined patterned mask is formed having one or more second openings, wherein one or more unmasked portions of the substrate are exposed. Trenches that correspond to the one or more unmasked portions of the substrate are formed in the substrate in the one or more second openings.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein forming the second patterned mask comprises:\n depositing a second mask layer over the first patterned mask and the substrate using an atomic layer deposition method; and etching the second mask layer to form the second patterned mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14285281', '15726074', '15867052', '14866157', '14621563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8665056275993203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4801006152017576
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.827865126359564
- Mean Citation Score: 186.192082
- Max Citation Score: 220.65767
- Similarity Product: 184.31860659977912

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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