PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971999
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "695000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a method includes performing a plasma etching process on a masked III-V semiconductor, and forming a passivation layer on etched portions of the III-V semiconductor. The passivation layer includes at least one of a group III element and/or a metal from the following: Ni, Cr, W, Mo, Pt, Pd, Mg, Ti, Zr, Hf, Y, Ta, and Sc.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the passivation layer is formed concurrently with the plasma etching process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59184
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09744212', '14728810', '11551286', '11067543', '15824166']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8673135425618792
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4871498202049962
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8292971703261909
- Mean Citation Score: 196.573392
- Max Citation Score: 206.94737
- Similarity Product: 152.68544930955647

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