PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to middle of the line self-aligned direct pattern contacts and methods of manufacture. The structures described herein include: at least one gate structure with a metallization and source/drain regions; a source/drain contact in electrical connection with the source/drain regions, respectively; and a contact structure with a re-entrant profile in electrical connection with the source/drain contact and the metallization of the at least one gate structure, respectively.

Claim (Index 2):
The structure of  claim 1 , wherein the re-entrant profile is a reverse tapered profile, with a larger cross-sectional portion extending into a straight profile between the spacers and in electrical connection with the source/drain contact and the metallization of the at least one gate structure and a smaller cross-sectional portion at a top portion thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93182
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399200', '15658570', '15345882', '15437065', '15647400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9250281945061344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5084734037899866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8833727154345195
- Mean Citation Score: 227.345544
- Max Citation Score: 255.07521
- Similarity Product: 166.98847616142868

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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