PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213868
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a first opening in a dielectric layer over a substrate, lining sidewalls and a bottom of the first opening with a conductive barrier layer, and depositing a seed layer over the conductive barrier layer. The method further includes treating the seed layer with a plasma process, and filling the first opening with a conductive material after the treating the seed layer.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein the first opening exposes a source/drain region underlying the dielectric layer, wherein portions of the first layer react with the source/drain region to from a silicide region during the thermal anneal process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12121
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583789', '15705034', '15490439', '15058864', '15662526']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8512575819565013
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5063912883112932
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8167709525919804
- Mean Citation Score: 175.105346
- Max Citation Score: 207.63463
- Similarity Product: 126.93160194017888

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

Dataset: test