PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951726
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "785000"]

Abstract:
Methods comprising depositing a film material to form an initial film in a trench in a substrate surface are described. The film is treated to expand the film to grow beyond the substrate surface.

Claim (Index 16):
A processing method comprising:\n providing a substrate surface having at least one trench, the at least one trench extending a depth from the substrate surface to a bottom surface, the at least one trench having a width defined by a first sidewall and a second sidewall; selectively depositing a film material to form an initial film having a film material volume in the trench and not on the substrate surface, the film material having a Pilling-Bedworth ratio of greater than 2 and comprising a material selected from the group consisting of Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Nb, Os, Ta, U, and V; and treating the initial film to form a oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Nb, Os, Ta, U, or V to expand the film material volume to provide an expanded film which extends beyond the substrate surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15801949', '12364836', '12714841', '15718148', '15893054']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8521859247936651
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5339869450632989
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8203660268206285
- Mean Citation Score: 232.127872
- Max Citation Score: 370.81464
- Similarity Product: 343.4023598686552

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

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