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 26):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein removing regions of the first material layer unprotected by the second material layer further comprises isotropically etching the first material layer selectively to the second 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): 0.896637810361096
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4895965690958961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.855933686234576
- Mean Citation Score: 136.22195200000002
- Max Citation Score: 139.58733999999998
- Similarity Product: 91.27628191401004

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