PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875619
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed to a method and resulting structures for smoothing the sidewall roughness of a post-etched film. A sacrificial layer is formed on a substrate. A patterned mask is formed by removing portions of the sacrificial layer to expose a surface of the substrate. The sidewalls of the patterned mask are smoothed and a target layer is formed over the patterned mask and the substrate. Portions of the target layer are removed to expose a surface of the patterned mask and the patterned mask is removed.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein smoothing sidewalls of the patterned mask comprises a high temperature furnace annealing or a hot mold embossing process at a temperature of greater than about 500 degrees Celsius.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35897
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15438383', '15841942', '14739008', '15241772', '14076386']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.925593035103253
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5639263782049441
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8894263694134221
- Mean Citation Score: 281.804748
- Max Citation Score: 431.29062000000016
- Similarity Product: 417.7217341994835

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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