PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883238
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "065000"]

Abstract:
A conductive layer is formed between a metal gate structure, which includes a high-k gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode, and a contact feature. The conductive layer can be selectively deposited on a top surface of the gate electrode or, alternatively, non-selectively formed on the top surface of the gate electrode and the gate dielectric layer by controlling, for example, time of deposition. The conductive layer can have a bottom portion embedded into the gate electrode. The conductive layer and the contact feature can include the same composition, though they may be formed using different deposition techniques.

Claim (Index 14):
The semiconductor structure of  claim 13 , the U-shaped gate dielectric layer having a top surface coplanar with a top surface of the gate electrode, wherein the portion formed above the top surface of the metal gate structure extends laterally to contact the top surface of the U-shaped gate dielectric layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0566
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15010798', '15599045', '15808618', '15862930', '15651248']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9178356951793246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4657364787226631
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8726257735336584
- Mean Citation Score: 155.59070799999995
- Max Citation Score: 156.68076000000005
- Similarity Product: 121.741297628274

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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