PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860565
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes following steps. A MEOL structure is formed on an etch stop layer. A patterned masking layer with at least one opening is formed on the MEOL structure and a first etching process is performed to form a trench in the MEOL structure. A second etching process is performed to modify at least one sidewall of the trench.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the sidewall of the trench slants to the etch stop layer after the second etching process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7619
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15380329', '15213506', '15486173', '15623539', '14975525']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9176269628115744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926177503277253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8751260415631896
- Mean Citation Score: 167.842096
- Max Citation Score: 172.3632
- Similarity Product: 109.59427649288178

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

Dataset: test