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 5):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein the forming of the second trench in the first material layer includes removing the portion of the second material layer such that the portion of the etch stop layer is exposed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14976751', '15019779', '15670000', '15183452', '14880379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8560782476981925
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5046863650843149
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8209390594368048
- Mean Citation Score: 237.94532200000003
- Max Citation Score: 256.6901
- Similarity Product: 200.61495173963905

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