PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933818
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "001000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for the fabrication of a correlated electron material (CEM) switching device, the method comprising: forming a layer of a conductive substrate; forming a layer of a correlated electron material on the conductive substrate; forming a layer of a conductive overlay on the layer of correlated electron material; and patterning the layers whereby to form a stack comprising a conductive substrate, a CEM layer and a conductive overlay, wherein the patterning comprises the following steps: forming a hard mask on the layer of the conductive overlay; dry etching the layer of conductive overlay and the layer of correlated electron material whereby to form a partially formed stack; depositing a coating of a protective polymer over at least sidewalls of the partially formed stack; and dry etching the layer of conductive substrate.

Claim (Index 7):
The method according to  claim 5 , wherein the removal of the coating of the protective polymer and the etching of the CEM from the side walls of the layer of the CEM in the stack are carried out as a single step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84615
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15933747', '15363216', '15243668', '15260515', '15641143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9274090749785662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5380569272560711
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8884738602063167
- Mean Citation Score: 283.87697000000014
- Max Citation Score: 379.5623
- Similarity Product: 254.9521329416394

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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