PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to middle of the line self-aligned direct pattern contacts and methods of manufacture. The structures described herein include: at least one gate structure with a metallization and source/drain regions; a source/drain contact in electrical connection with the source/drain regions, respectively; and a contact structure with a re-entrant profile in electrical connection with the source/drain contact and the metallization of the at least one gate structure, respectively.

Claim (Index 21):
The structure of  claim 12 , further comprising:\n an additional contact structure with a reverse tapered profile spanning over a source/drain contact of the plurality of source/drain structures and in electrical connection with two of the plurality of gate structures; a capping material directly on a top surface of the source/drain contact of the plurality of source/drain structures to electrically isolate the source/drain contact of the plurality of source/drain structures from the additional contact structure; and a wiring which is in electrical connection and directly contacts two of the plurality of source/drain contacts, the wiring and the two of the plurality of source/drain contacts are in a same wiring plane in a tip-to-tip connection in a lateral orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93182
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399200', '15658570', '15345882', '15437065', '15647400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9168006842359456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4994470844783311
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8750653242601842
- Mean Citation Score: 227.345544
- Max Citation Score: 255.07521
- Similarity Product: 185.89843264008164

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

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