PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["438", "199000"]

Abstract:
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, performing at least one etching process to expose at least a portion of an upper surface of a gate electrode of a first transistor device and at least a vertical portion of one side surface of the gate electrode and performing a material growth process to form a conductive gate-to-source/drain (GSD) contact structure that conductively couples the gate electrode of the first transistor device to a source/drain region of the first transistor device, wherein the conductive GSD contact structure comprises a non-single crystal material portion positioned on previously exposed portions of the gate electrode and a single crystal material portion positioned in the source/drain region.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of forming a conductive gate-to-source/drain (GSD) contact structure for a first transistor device, the first transistor device comprising a gate electrode, a gate cap covering an upper surface of said gate electrode, and a sidewall spacer covering side surfaces of said gate electrode, the method comprising:\n performing at least one etching process to remove at least a portion of said gate cap so as to expose at least a portion of said upper surface of said gate electrode of said first transistor device and to remove at least a portion of said sidewall spacer so as to expose at least a vertical portion of one of said side surfaces of said gate electrode; and performing a GSD contact material growth process to form said conductive GSD contact structure that conductively couples said gate electrode of said first transistor device to a source/drain region of said first transistor device, wherein said conductive GSD contact structure comprises a non-single crystal material portion positioned on previously exposed portions of said gate electrode and a single crystal material portion positioned in said source/drain region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15791650', '15791711', '15813471', '15047137', '15214670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8654127922070771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.499035335578419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8287750465442114
- Mean Citation Score: 251.400774
- Max Citation Score: 277.93906
- Similarity Product: 229.96971848563908

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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