PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866635
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "243000"]

Abstract:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a first conductive layer; forming a second conductive layer over the first conductive layer; forming a conductive line by etching the second conductive layer; etching a portion of the first conductive layer to form a plug head having the same critical dimension as the conductive line; forming a first spacer that covers the conductive line and the plug head; etching the remaining first conductive layer to form a plug body that is aligned with the first spacer, wherein the plug body have a greater critical dimension than the plug head; and forming a second spacer by performing a selective oxidation onto a side wall of the plug body.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the third spacer is formed to be thicker than the first spacer and the second spacer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42308
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14506393', '15092076', '14516128', '13843794', '15837530']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8811313095911837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5130744803120342
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8443256266632688
- Mean Citation Score: 262.653012
- Max Citation Score: 279.74615
- Similarity Product: 187.25661384684744

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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