PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206348
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["438", "269000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment method includes forming a patterned etch mask over a target layer and patterning the target layer using the patterned etch mask as a mask to form a patterned target layer. The method further includes performing a first cleaning process on the patterned etch mask and the patterned target layer, the first cleaning process including a first solution. The method additionally includes performing a second cleaning process to remove the patterned etch mask and form an exposed patterned target layer, the second cleaning process including a second solution. The method also includes performing a third cleaning process on the exposed patterned target layer, and performing a fourth cleaning process on the exposed patterned target layer, the fourth cleaning process comprising the first solution.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the second cleaning solution comprises phosphoric acid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.38462
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15796398', '15665682', '15725805', '15641009', '15184315']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8588665534992145
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5103765014909696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.82401754829839
- Mean Citation Score: 185.931524
- Max Citation Score: 263.3578
- Similarity Product: 179.99191548478603

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