PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "379000"]

Abstract:
A device including RM below the top surface of an HKMG structure, and method of production thereof. Embodiments include first and second HKMG structures over a portion of the substrate and on opposite sides of the STI region, the first and second HKMG structures having a top surface; and a RM over the STI region and between the first and second HKMG structures, wherein the RM is below the top surface of the first and second HKMG structures.

Claim (Index 1):
A device comprising:\n first and second high-k/metal gate (HKMG) structures over a portion of a substrate and on opposite sides of a shallow trench isolation (STI) region, the first and second HKMG structures having a top surface; a resistor metal (RM) over the STI region and between the first and second HKMG structures, wherein the RM is below the top surface of the first and second HKMG structures; a contact etch stop layer (CESL) over the substrate, the STI region, and on sidewalls of the first and second HKMG structures; a first oxide layer over the CESL and below the RM; and a second oxide layer over the first oxide layer, the RM and the CESL, a top surface of the second oxide layer substantially coplanar to the top surface of the first and second HKMG structures; a middle-of-line (MOL) oxide layer over the second oxide layer and the first and second HKMG structures; a first contact extending through the MOL oxide layer, the second oxide layer and the first oxide layer to the CESL between the first HKMG structure and the RM; second and third contacts extending through the MOL oxide layer and the second oxide layer to the RM; and a fourth contact extending through the MOL oxide layer to the second HKMG structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27027
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15962808', '14196517', '13482410', '13251444', '13482393']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9079135239843784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4654592937862254
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8636681009645631
- Mean Citation Score: 160.16962399999997
- Max Citation Score: 179.96854
- Similarity Product: 146.8480184408903

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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