PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16414563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a method for reducing the surface deformation of a color filter after a baking process in an image sensor device. Surface deformation can be reduced by increasing the surface area of the color filter prior to baking. For example, forming a grid structure over a semiconductor layer of an image sensor device, where the grid structure includes a first region with one or more cells having a common sidewall; disposing one or more color filters in a second region of the grid structure; recessing the common sidewall in the first region of the grid structure to form a group of cells with the recessed common sidewall; and disposing another color filter in the group of cells.

Claim (Index 1):
An image sensor device, comprising:\n a semiconductor layer; a grid structure disposed on the semiconductor layer and configured to guide incoming light to regions in the semiconductor layer, wherein the grid structure comprises two or more adjoining cells with common sidewalls, and wherein the common sidewalls are shorter than non-adjoining sidewalls of the two or more adjoining cells.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03125
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15964353', '15964288', '15966885', '14713172', '15018603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.90475686532389
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487902937924502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8630714725839512
- Mean Citation Score: 176.98472800000005
- Max Citation Score: 240.74416
- Similarity Product: 205.70357184145928

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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