PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "638000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a material layer over a substrate and forming a first trench in the material layer, forming a conformal capping layer along sidewalls of the first trench, forming a second trench in the material layer while the capping layer is disposed along sidewalls of the first trench and forming a conductive feature within the first trench and the second trench.

Claim (Index 8):
A method comprising:\n forming a dielectric layer over a substrate; forming a first hard mask layer over the dielectric layer; removing a first portion of the dielectric layer to form a first trench within the dielectric layer and through the first hard mask layer; forming a material layer in the first trench along sidewalls of the dielectric layer and the first hard mask layer; removing a second portion of the dielectric layer and a portion of the first hard mask layer to form a second trench within the dielectric layer, wherein a remaining portion of the material layer is disposed within the first trench along a sidewall of the dielectric layer after the removing of the second portion of the dielectric layer and the portion of the first hard mask layer to form the second trench; and forming a conductive feature within the first trench and the second trench.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14976751', '15019779', '15670000', '15183452', '14880379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8413641894709515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4974944093423258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.806977211458089
- Mean Citation Score: 237.94532200000003
- Max Citation Score: 256.6901
- Similarity Product: 214.6492185010433

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

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