PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136488
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "069000"]

Abstract:
Photodiode structures and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a waveguide structure in a dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a Ge material in proximity to the waveguide structure in a back end of the line (BEOL) metal layer. The method further includes crystallizing the Ge material into a crystalline Ge structure by a low temperature annealing process with a metal layer in contact with the Ge material.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 5 , wherein the metal layer is a germanide or a eutectic.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15408004', '14483584', '15408012', '15981191', '15807054']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8662809244232323
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017929846477889
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.829832130445688
- Mean Citation Score: 244.28673
- Max Citation Score: 279.4819
- Similarity Product: 241.9678392309069

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