PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "537000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a thin film resistor (TFR) module in an integrated circuit (IC) structure may include forming a trench in a dielectric region; forming a TFR element in the trench, the TFR element including a laterally-extending TFR region and a TFR ridge extending upwardly from a laterally-extending TFR region; depositing at least one metal layer over the TFR element; and patterning the at least one metal layer and etching the at least one metal layer using a metal etch to define a pair of metal TFR heads over the TFR element, wherein the metal etch also removes at least a portion of the upwardly-extending TFR ridge. The method may also include forming at least one conductive TFR contact extending through the TFR element and in contact with a respective TFR head to thereby increase a conductive path between the respective TFR head and the TFR element.

Claim (Index 29):
The TFR module of  claim 16 , wherein a pair of outer surface areas of the conductive TFR contact spaced apart from each other in a direction around the circumference of the conductive TFR contact outer surface are in contact with the vertical TFR ridge, and areas between the pair of outer surface areas of the conductive TFR contact in the direction around the circumference of the conductive TFR contact outer surface are not in contact with the vertical TFR ridge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16034423', '16037941', '15855576', '15855635', '15872429']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9235635859269132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5338966563714787
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8845968929713697
- Mean Citation Score: 240.91046600000004
- Max Citation Score: 358.2349
- Similarity Product: 203.804506904918

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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