PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895895
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
A method includes depositing a dielectric structure on a first conductive structure, etching the dielectric structure to form a via opening, etching the dielectric structure to form a trench over the via opening, depositing a first protective layer on a bottom surface of the trench, filling the trench and the via opening with a second conductive structure, and removing the first protective layer to form an air gap between the second conductive structure and the dielectric structure.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n depositing a stop layer over the air gap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44118
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14985157', '14983412', '15893050', '13092037', '15131608']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9143885625406086
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4975288672955104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8727025930160988
- Mean Citation Score: 162.231782
- Max Citation Score: 170.74
- Similarity Product: 100.53176511526108

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