PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042240
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "695000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary methods of patterning a device layer are described, including operations of patterning a protector layer and forming a first opening in a first patterning layer to expose a first portion of the protector layer and a first portion of the hard mask layer, which are then are exposed to a first etch to form a first opening in the first portion of the hard mask layer. A second opening is formed in a second patterning layer to expose a second portion of the protector layer and a second portion of the hard mask layer. The second portion of the protector layer and the second portion of the hard mask layer are exposed to an etch to form a second opening in the second portion of the hard mask layer. Exposed portions of the device layer are then etched through the first opening and the second opening.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 18 , further comprising removing a portion of the exposed device layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.825
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15169249', '15993691', '15072549', '15239166', '15794637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8494148649063815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5153617783396047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8160095562497038
- Mean Citation Score: 200.970696
- Max Citation Score: 281.44962000000004
- Similarity Product: 176.3580003096378

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

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