PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "368000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a device manufactured using the same are provided. According to a method approach of the embodiment, a substrate having at least a first area with a plurality of polysilicon gates and a second area adjacent to the first area is provided. A contact etch stop layer (CESL) over the polysilicon gates of the first area is formed, and the CESL extends to the second area. Then, a dielectric layer is formed on the CESL, and a nitride layer is formed on the dielectric layer. The nitride layer is patterned to expose the dielectric layer in the first area and to form a pattern of dummy nitrides on the dielectric layer in the second area.

Claim (Index 1):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n a substrate having at least a first area with a plurality of metal gates and a second area adjacent to the first area; a patterned contact etch stop layer (CESL) formed in the first area and the second area; a patterned dielectric layer formed on the patterned CESL, wherein the adjacent metal gates are separated by the patterned CESL and the patterned dielectric layer; and a pattern comprising patterned underlying nitrides being embedded in the patterned dielectric layer within the second area, wherein the pattern comprising the patterned underlying nitrides is separated from the patterned CESL by the patterned dielectric layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14980779', '12152380', '14682265', '15138228', '12487894']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9094402783124204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5223009122786854
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.870726341709047
- Mean Citation Score: 211.604324
- Max Citation Score: 340.9078
- Similarity Product: 291.30729857267136

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

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