PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "532000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit configured to mitigate damage to MIM decoupling capacitors. In some embodiments, the integrated chip has a lower interconnect layer vertically separated from a substrate by a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer. A conductive contact extends from a transistor device within the substrate to an uppermost surface of the first ILD layer. A plurality of MIM (metal-insulator-metal) structures are arranged over the lower interconnect layer. An upper interconnect layer is over the plurality of MIM structures. One or both of the lower interconnect layer and the upper interconnect layer are comprised within a conductive path that electrically couples the plurality of MIM structures in a series connection.

Claim (Index 20):
The integrated chip of  claim 17 ,\n wherein the plurality of MIM structures respectively comprise a first lower electrode separated from a first upper electrode by a first dielectric layer; and wherein the first lower electrode directly contacts an upper surface of the first interconnect layer that continuously extends from directly below the first MIM structure to directly below the second MIM structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83824
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15418904', '14883808', '14249513', '14249482', '14289739']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9275490491542993
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5237094253633447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8871650867752038
- Mean Citation Score: 262.950558
- Max Citation Score: 330.69165
- Similarity Product: 250.38347659817933

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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