PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "758000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device structure comprises stacked tiers each comprising a conductive structure and an insulating structure longitudinally adjacent the at least one conductive structure, at least one staircase structure having steps comprising lateral ends of the stacked tiers, and an opening laterally adjacent a first side of the at least one staircase structure and extending through the stacked tiers and continuously across an entire length of the at least one staircase structure. Conductive structures of the stacked tiers laterally extend from the steps of the at least one staircase structure completely across a second side of the at least one staircase structure opposing the first side to form continuous conductive paths laterally extending completely across the stacked tiers. Additional semiconductor device structures, methods of forming semiconductor device structures, and electronic systems are also described.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein removing portions of the stacked tiers to form at least one staircase structure comprises:\n forming a hard mask material over a portion of the stacked tiers; selectively etching the stacked tiers using to the hard mask material to form a stadium structure comprising a first staircase structure and a second staircase structure mirroring the first staircase structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47368
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15095401', '15058921', '15606415', '15858072', '15624422']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9171469020126938
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5206252413446154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.877494735945886
- Mean Citation Score: 246.112456
- Max Citation Score: 324.3506799999999
- Similarity Product: 228.3172421805333

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

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