PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to manufacturing techniques and respective semiconductor devices in which the capping material of gate electrode structures may be removed together with portions of the capping material of resistors on the basis of a highly controllable directional etch process, wherein raised drain and source regions may be protected on the basis of a fill material.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n forming first and second active regions in a semiconductor layer; forming a fill material adjacent to and above a transistor element and adjacent to and above a non-transistor element, said transistor element comprising a first electrode structure that is formed above said first active region and is covered by a first capping material, and said non-transistor element comprising a second electrode structure that is at least partially formed above said second active region and is covered by a second capping material; removing a portion of said fill material so as to expose at least a top surface of said first and second capping materials; and performing a removal process for both said first capping material and said second capping material so as to remove said first capping material from above said first electrode structure and to remove at least a first portion of said second capping material from above said second electrode structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36364
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11559462', '14722818', '12905655', '11466802', '13198107']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9158256906576586
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4758569515333724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8718288167452299
- Mean Citation Score: 209.26946
- Max Citation Score: 221.54156
- Similarity Product: 187.97239132794857

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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