PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028496
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["438", "717000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a mask layer over a target layer. A first etching process is performed on the mask layer to form a first opening and a second opening in the mask layer. A second etching process is performed on the mask layer to reduce an end-to-end spacing between the first opening and the second opening. The first etching process and the second etching process have different anisotropy properties. A pattern of the mask layer is transferred to the target layer.

Claim (Index 14):
A method comprising:\n forming a first mask layer over a target layer; patterning the first mask layer to form a first opening in the first mask layer; forming a second mask layer over the first mask layer and in the first opening; performing a first implantation process on the second mask layer to form a first doped region in the second mask layer, the first doped region having a first width; performing a second implantation process on the second mask layer to form a second doped region in the second mask layer, the second doped region being above the first doped region, the second doped region having a second width, the second width being different from the first width; selectively removing undoped regions of the second mask layer, the first doped region and the second doped region of the second mask layer forming a cut feature, the cut feature cutting the first opening into two separate second openings; and patterning the target layer using the first mask layer and the cut feature as a combined mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15395310', '15923072', '13728277', '16004086', '15812750']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8406694209227653
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.443961628415273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8009986416720161
- Mean Citation Score: 121.0620298
- Max Citation Score: 131.35332
- Similarity Product: 111.62996903496266

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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