PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16105332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a metal gate in a first inter-layer dielectric, performing a treatment on the metal gate and the first inter-layer dielectric, selectively growing a hard mask on the metal gate without growing the hard mask from the first inter-layer dielectric, depositing a second inter-layer dielectric over the hard mask and the first inter-layer dielectric, planarizing the second inter-layer dielectric and the hard mask, and forming a gate contact plug penetrating through the hard mask to electrically couple to the metal gate.

Claim (Index 17):
The device of  claim 16  further comprising a second inter-layer dielectric contacting a sidewall of the dielectric region and a top surface of the first inter-layer dielectric.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57143
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15492167', '15859893', '15610981', '12487894', '15429894']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9201410984409332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5064254267435663
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8787695312711964
- Mean Citation Score: 249.924218
- Max Citation Score: 289.32306
- Similarity Product: 223.14346514888405

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