PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16235540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
At least one opening having a biconvex shape is formed into a dielectric material layer. A void-free metallization region (interconnect metallic region and/or metallic contact region) is provided to each of the openings. The void-free metallization region has the biconvex shape and exhibits a low wire resistance.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein said forming said dielectric material layer having said at least one opening having a biconvex shape comprises:\n forming at least one initial opening in said dielectric material layer, said at least one initial opening having sidewall surfaces that are perpendicular to the topmost and bottom surface of said dielectric material layer; and performing an etch to provide said biconvex shape to each of said initial openings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36842
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15189720', '15794576', '15189749', '15906956', '15229783']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9358891032852106
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.540039460727025
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8963041390293921
- Mean Citation Score: 332.36407799999995
- Max Citation Score: 390.02573
- Similarity Product: 257.2537259242654

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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