PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978722
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "712000"]

Abstract:
A method of patterning a substrate. The method may include providing a surface feature on the substrate, the surface feature having a first dimension along a first direction within a substrate plane, and a second dimension along a second direction within the substrate plane, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; and directing first ions in a first exposure to the surface feature along the first direction at a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane, in a presence of a reactive ambient containing a reactive species; wherein the first exposure etches the surface feature along the first direction, wherein after the directing, the surface feature retains the second dimension along the second direction, and wherein the surface feature has a third dimension along the first direction different than the first dimension.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of patterning a substrate, comprising:\n providing a first layer directly on a second layer in the substrate, the first layer having at least one hole, the second layer comprising a continuous layer or a semicontinuous layer; and directing first ions in a first exposure to the layer along a trajectory, the trajectory forming a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane, wherein the trajectory is aligned along a first direction, wherein the first exposure comprises a reactive ion etch, the reactive ion etch configured to selectively etch the first layer with respect to the second layer, wherein the at least one hole is selectively etched along the first direction with respect to a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, and wherein the first exposure increases a first hole dimension of the at least one hole by etching the at least one hole along the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92308
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14749822', '15977255', '15142526', '15384496', '14230649']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.858338205370087
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5469307889669545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8271974637297737
- Mean Citation Score: 263.19041000000004
- Max Citation Score: 401.6034
- Similarity Product: 367.4986452101469

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

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