PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046475
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "324000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of semiconductor devices and methods for forming the semiconductor devices are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming device openings includes forming a material layer over a first region and a second region of a substrate, the first region being adjacent to the second region, forming a mask layer over the material layer, the mask layer covering the first region and the second region, and forming a patterning layer over the mask layer. The patterning layer covers the first region and the second region and including openings corresponding to the first region. The plurality of openings includes a first opening adjacent to a boundary between the first region and the second region and a second opening further away from the boundary. Along a plane parallel to a top surface of the substrate, a size of the first opening is greater than a size of the second opening.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein a distance between the first opening in the first row and an adjacent second opening in the second row is greater than a distance between the second opening in the second row and an adjacent second opening in the third row; and a distance between two openings of two adjacent rows decreases along the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96296
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15865227', '15978190', '12763861', '14883675', '12313117']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9190364360291824
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905078433098989
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.876183576757254
- Mean Citation Score: 189.48958
- Max Citation Score: 203.83736
- Similarity Product: 146.24100451889038

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

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