PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "653000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a barrier layer over a dielectric layer, a concentration of an impurity in the barrier layer increasing as the barrier layer extends away from the dielectric layer; and performing a plasma process to treat the barrier layer.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein forming the barrier layer comprises performing an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53125
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12002780', '10738177', '15849253', '11807178', '15411892']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8675317655464191
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876647912882765
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8295450681206049
- Mean Citation Score: 168.076898
- Max Citation Score: 173.69397
- Similarity Product: 115.56099179736437

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

Dataset: test