PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16078249
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["257", "072000"]

Abstract:
A method of producing a semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: step (C) of forming an oxide semiconductor layer of a plurality of thin film transistors on a gate dielectric layer; step (F) of forming an aperture in an interlevel dielectric layer, the aperture being located between an active region and a plurality of terminal portions and extending through the interlevel dielectric layer; and step (G) of, after step (F), forming an upper conductive portion on the interlevel dielectric layer. In step (C), a protection layer made of the same oxide semiconductor film as the oxide semiconductor layer is formed above a region of the gate dielectric layer that is located between the active region and the plurality of terminal portions. In step (F), the aperture is formed so as to overlap the protection layer.

Claim (Index 23):
A semiconductor device comprising:\n a substrate; a plurality of first thin film transistors supported on the substrate; an interlevel dielectric layer covering the plurality of first thin film transistors; and a plurality of terminal portions electrically connecting the plurality of first thin film transistors to corresponding external wiring lines, the semiconductor device having an active region in which the plurality of first thin film transistors are provided, and a peripheral region being located around the active region and having the plurality of terminal portions provided therein, wherein, each of the plurality of first thin film transistors includes a gate electrode provided on the substrate, a gate dielectric layer covering the gate electrodes, an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the gate dielectric layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer; the interlevel dielectric layer has an aperture formed between the active region and the plurality of terminal portions, the aperture extending through the interlevel dielectric layer; the semiconductor device further comprises a protection layer above a region of the gate dielectric layer that is located between the active region and the plurality of terminal portions, the protection layer being made of a same oxide semiconductor film as the oxide semiconductor layer; and the aperture is formed so as to at least partly overlap the protection layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5873
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16072910', '14358778', '14370996', '15423759', '15124385']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9237558083922492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5089092893594939
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8822711564889736
- Mean Citation Score: 276.186028
- Max Citation Score: 302.52667
- Similarity Product: 241.36567824709653

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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