PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16067343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["355", "077000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a process including: obtaining a layout specifying, at least in part, a pattern to be transferred to a substrate via a patterning process and an etch process; and modifying, with one or more processors, the layout to include an etch-assist feature that is larger than a resolution limit of the patterning process and smaller than a resolution limit of the etch process, the etch-assist feature being configured to reduce a bias of the patterning process or the etch process, to reduce an etch induced shift of a feature in the layout due to the etch process, or to expand a process window of another patterning process.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 1 , comprising:\n after modifying the layout, further modifying the layout to include optical proximity correction features configured to affect the patterning process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22642
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12167553', '15818947', '15284773', '15455784', '13889550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6279139664388218
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826869661868849
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6133912664136282
- Mean Citation Score: 158.01466200000004
- Max Citation Score: 162.54181
- Similarity Product: 102.39058557094096

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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