PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973784
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "758000"]

Abstract:
Integrated circuits, as well as methods of their formation, include a first conductive structure at a first level of the integrated circuit, a second conductive structure at a second level of the integrated circuit, a first conductor at a third level of the integrated circuit between the first level and the second level, a second conductor at the third level and parallel to the first conductor, and a third conductor at the third level and parallel to the first conductor and to the second conductor. The first conductive structure is in physical and electrical contact with the first conductor and the second conductor. The second conductive structure is in physical and electrical contact with the second conductor and the third conductor.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of forming an integrated circuit, comprising:\n forming a first conductive structure in a first dielectric; forming a second dielectric over the first conductive structure and the first dielectric; forming a plurality of spacers over the second dielectric, leaving a first plurality of exposed portions of the second dielectric between adjacent spacers of the plurality of spacers; forming a mask over a first portion of the plurality of spacers and over a second portion of the plurality of spacers, leaving a second plurality of exposed portions of the second dielectric between adjacent unmasked spacers of the plurality of spacers, wherein the second plurality of exposed portions of the second dielectric is a subset of the first plurality of exposed portions of the second dielectric; removing the second plurality of exposed portions of the second dielectric to define a plurality of openings in the second dielectric, exposing a first portion of the first conductive structure, a second portion of the first conductive structure, and a portion of the first dielectric; forming a conductive material in the plurality of openings in the second dielectric to define a plurality of conductors, wherein a first conductor of the plurality of conductors is formed to be in physical and electrical contact with the first portion of the first conductive structure, a second conductor of the plurality of conductors is formed to be in physical and electrical contact with the second portion of the first conductive structure, and a third conductor of the plurality of conductors is formed to be isolated from the first conductive structure; forming a third dielectric over the second dielectric and over the plurality of conductors; and forming a second conductive structure in the third dielectric to be in physical and electrical contact with the second conductor and to be in physical and electrical contact with the third conductor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.82353
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14887359', '13449452', '12861093', '13771117', '15913190']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9142527336926544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5006933833796728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8728967986613563
- Mean Citation Score: 220.314544
- Max Citation Score: 285.45975
- Similarity Product: 241.88588489851355

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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