PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["216", "066000"]

Abstract:
A method for shallow etching a substrate surface forms a shallow modified substrate layer overlying unmodified substrate using an accelerated neutral beam and etches the modified layer, stopping at the unmodified substrate beneath, producing controlled shallow etched substrate surfaces.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein shallow modified layer is an amorphized layer or an oxidized layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15047553', '14571533', '14466242', '13215514', '14496412']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8606557857212223
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5498359967633492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.829573806825435
- Mean Citation Score: 488.386416
- Max Citation Score: 511.33746
- Similarity Product: 286.337336189636

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

Dataset: test