PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773158
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "208000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to using a SAM liner to promote electroless deposition of metal for integrated circuit interconnects. The SAM liner can be formed on a dielectric substrate. A protective layer can be formed on the SAM liner. The protective layer can double as a seed layer for electroless deposition of an interconnect metal. The interconnect metal can be deposited on the protective layer using electroless deposition. The dielectric, with the SAM liner, the protective layer, and the interconnect metal can be annealed to reflow the interconnect metal into trenches formed in the dielectric.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 7 , wherein forming the interconnect layer on the protective layer comprises forming the interconnect layer from an electroless bath.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40909
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13771175', '15476872', '11284572', '15769699', '13074771']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9155962814566244
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915566253244665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8731923158434085
- Mean Citation Score: 145.401228
- Max Citation Score: 151.66885
- Similarity Product: 93.33689524120688

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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