PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881186
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "409000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a transistor at a surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the step of forming the transistor comprises forming a gate electrode, and forming a source/drain region adjacent the gate electrode. First metal features are formed to include at least portions at a same level as the gate electrode. Second metal features are formed simultaneously, and are over and contacting the first metal features. A first one of the second metal features is removed and replaced with a third metal feature, wherein a second one of the second metal features is not removed. A fourth metal feature is formed directly over and contacting the gate electrode, wherein the third and the fourth metal features are formed using a same metal-filling process.

Claim (Index 2):
The device of  claim 1  further comprising:\n a first source/drain contact extending through the first dielectric layer and directly contacting the first source/drain region, wherein the first conductive via directly contacts the first source/drain contact; and \n a second source/drain contact extending through the first dielectric layer and directly contacting the second source/drain region, wherein the second conductive via directly contacts the second source/drain contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48148
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15215306', '13149547', '14059123', '13349723', '13362411']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9108098624884025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4957130603199132
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8693001822715535
- Mean Citation Score: 193.701854
- Max Citation Score: 243.10864
- Similarity Product: 179.2071460041237

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

Dataset: test