PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006402
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "658000"]

Abstract:
Methods for filling a substrate feature with a seamless tungsten fill are described. The methods include depositing a tungsten film, oxidizing the tungsten film to a tungsten oxide pillar, reducing the tungsten oxide film to a seamless tungsten gapfill and optionally depositing additional tungsten on the tungsten gapfill.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein the tungsten film is oxidized through one or more of a thermal oxidation process or a plasma oxidation process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15658846', '15945117', '15805753', '15461847', '15621120']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8783335555273113
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911231319241528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8396125131669955
- Mean Citation Score: 209.990888
- Max Citation Score: 231.66866
- Similarity Product: 182.25031269312385

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test