PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977255
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "701000"]

Abstract:
A method may include providing a surface feature on a substrate, the surface feature comprising a feature shape a feature location, and a dimension along a first direction within a substrate plane; depositing a layer comprising a layer material on the surface feature; and directing ions in an ion exposure at an angle of incidence toward the substrate, the angle of incidence forming a non-zero angle with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane, wherein the ion exposure comprises the ions and reactive neutral species, the ion exposure reactively etching the layer material, wherein the ions impact a first portion of the surface feature and do not impact a second portion of the surface feature, and wherein an altered surface feature is generated, the altered surface feature differing from the surface feature in at least one of: the dimension along the first direction, the feature shape, or the feature location.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein the cavity comprises a trench before the depositing the layer, wherein the first dimension is greater than the second dimension, and wherein after the depositing the layer and after the ion exposure, the trench comprises a third dimension along the second direction, the third dimension being less than the first dimension, and further comprises a fourth dimension along the first direction, the fourth dimension being greater than the first dimension.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15142526', '14749822', '14962642', '15296782', '14459813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8602780252578301
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5122154590858119
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8254717686406283
- Mean Citation Score: 223.661308
- Max Citation Score: 307.4987799999999
- Similarity Product: 273.3561511010109

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