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 9):
The method of  claim 1 , comprising:\n determining parameters of a filter for defect metrology of the substrate before the etch process is complete to reduce false -positive identification of defects from the etch-assist feature.

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): 0.6294925799687568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4762976088841832
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6141730828602995
- Mean Citation Score: 158.01466200000004
- Max Citation Score: 162.54181
- Similarity Product: 108.78616546749711

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