PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968605
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "669000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for filling features with metal materials such as tungsten-containing materials in a substantially void-free manner are provided. In certain embodiments, the method involves depositing an initial layer of a metal such as a tungsten-containing material followed by removing a portion of the initial layer to form a remaining layer, which is differentially passivated along the depth of the high-aspect ratio feature. The portion may be removed by exposing the tungsten-containing material to a plasma generated from a fluorine-containing nitrogen-containing gas and pulsing and/or ramping the plasma during the exposure.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the metal is tungsten.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49231
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15240807', '15687775', '13351970', '14285505', '13016656']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8858024835543689
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5446367213478311
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8516859073337151
- Mean Citation Score: 284.056214
- Max Citation Score: 399.56802000000016
- Similarity Product: 391.9531999186064

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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