PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951637
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "702000"]

Abstract:
Methods for seam-less gapfill comprising depositing a film in a feature, treating the film to change some film property and selectively etching the film from the top surface are described. The deposition, treatment and etching are repeated to form a seam-less gapfill in the feature.

Claim (Index 1):
A processing method comprising:\n providing a substrate surface having at least one feature thereon, the at least one feature extending a depth from the substrate surface to a bottom surface, the at least one feature having a width defined by a first sidewall and a second sidewall; forming a film on the substrate surface and the first sidewall, second sidewall and bottom surface of the at least one feature, the film having a thickness at a top of the feature and a thickness at the bottom of the feature; treating the film to change one or more of structure, composition or morphology of the film to form a treated film; and etching the treated film to remove substantially all of the treated film from the top of the feature and leaving at least some of the treated film at the bottom of the feature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58065
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15945117', '15461847', '15455766', '15936740', '10821751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.859402500683118
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850345949073751
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8219657101055438
- Mean Citation Score: 186.072054
- Max Citation Score: 217.63045
- Similarity Product: 170.13068954816166

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