PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039570
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "666000"]

Abstract:
A method for fabricating semiconductor wafers comprises creating a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of wide copper wires and a plurality of narrow copper wires embedded in a dielectric insulator. The width of each wide copper wire is greater than a cutoff value and each narrow copper is less than the cutoff value. An optical pass through layer is deposited over a top surface of the wafer and a photo-resist layer is deposited over the optical pass through layer. The wafer is exposed to a light source to selectively remove photo-resist, forming a self-aligned pattern where photo-resist only remains in areas above wide copper wires. The self-aligned pattern is transferred to the optical pass through layer and the remaining photo-resist is removed. The wafer is chemically etched to remove the narrow copper wires, defining narrow gaps in the dielectric insulator. The wafer is metallized with non-copper metal, forming narrow non-copper metal wires.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the width of each narrow copper wire is less than half of the wavelength of the light source divided by twice the resistance of the optical pass through layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31429
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13160713', '15005700', '14146887', '13161036', '10674381']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.862552707308125
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4969350833541368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8259909449127262
- Mean Citation Score: 162.929854
- Max Citation Score: 166.99022
- Similarity Product: 100.44973910702468

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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