PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885948
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "487000"]

Abstract:
A capacitor structure may include a lower conducting layer (e.g., poly 1 layer) and an upper conducting layer (e.g., overlying poly 2 layer), which define an anode and cathode, and a dielectric layer (e.g., an ONO layer stack) located between the upper conducting layer and the lower conducting layer, wherein a portion of the dielectric layer (e.g., at least the nitride layer of the ONO layer stack) extends beyond a lateral edge of the upper conducting layer. A method forming such capacitor structure may utilize a spacer adjacent the lateral edge of the upper conducting layer and over the first portion of the dielectric layer, performing an etch to remove a first portion of the dielectric layer but protect a second portion located below the spacer and extending laterally beyond an edge of the upper conducting layer.

Claim (Index 5):
The capacitor structure of  claim 1 , further comprising a spacer adjacent the lateral edge of the upper conducting layer and covering the portion of the dielectric extending beyond the lateral edge of the upper conducting layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62712
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10707029', '11607265', '11784633', '10707261', '12723381']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.914761989764674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4964236378392511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8729281545721317
- Mean Citation Score: 208.450814
- Max Citation Score: 215.38841
- Similarity Product: 141.95786561678767

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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