PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213868
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a first opening in a dielectric layer over a substrate, lining sidewalls and a bottom of the first opening with a conductive barrier layer, and depositing a seed layer over the conductive barrier layer. The method further includes treating the seed layer with a plasma process, and filling the first opening with a conductive material after the treating the seed layer.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein forming the non-conformal conductive barrier layer further comprises:\n after the thermal anneal process, removing upper portions of the first layer and upper portions of the second layer that are disposed along upper sidewalls of the first opening while keeping lower portions of the first layer and lower portions of the second layer that are disposed along lower sidewalls of the first opening; and after the removing, forming a third layer over the second layer, the third layer having a same composition as the second layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12121
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583789', '15705034', '15490439', '15058864', '15662526']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8521950932031838
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4988947218651436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8168650560693798
- Mean Citation Score: 175.105346
- Max Citation Score: 207.63463
- Similarity Product: 139.12823748102426

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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