PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16067343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["355", "077000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a process including: obtaining a layout specifying, at least in part, a pattern to be transferred to a substrate via a patterning process and an etch process; and modifying, with one or more processors, the layout to include an etch-assist feature that is larger than a resolution limit of the patterning process and smaller than a resolution limit of the etch process, the etch-assist feature being configured to reduce a bias of the patterning process or the etch process, to reduce an etch induced shift of a feature in the layout due to the etch process, or to expand a process window of another patterning process.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , comprising:\n for a feature in the layout, determining that an etch bias attributable to the etch process would affect the transfer of the feature, wherein modifying the layout comprises modifying the layout to reduce the etch bias by placing the etch-assist feature adjacent the feature in the layout.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22642
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12167553', '15818947', '15284773', '15455784', '13889550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6275068223529175
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843342571510092
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6131895658327267
- Mean Citation Score: 158.01466200000004
- Max Citation Score: 162.54181
- Similarity Product: 100.7426535353899

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