PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040859
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["216", "063000"]

Abstract:
An etching process is provided that includes a pre-clean process to remove a surface oxide of a dielectric material. The removal of the oxide can be executed through a thermal reaction and/or plasma process before the etch process. In some embodiments, the removal of the oxide increases etch process control and reproducibility and can improve the selectivity versus oxides.

Claim (Index 17):
The process of  claim 4 , wherein the dielectric material comprises silicon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 70.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10273580', '15225489', '13614365', '15923722', '12174402']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7469190901260804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5114407865155134
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7233712597650237
- Mean Citation Score: 208.13785
- Max Citation Score: 223.28867
- Similarity Product: 130.04274115506948

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test