PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16220174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "618000"]

Abstract:
Methods disclosed herein form semiconductor devices having minimum spacings that correlate with spacer widths. An exemplary method includes forming a target layer over a substrate, forming a patterning layer over the target layer, and etching the target layer using the patterning layer as an etch mask. The patterning layer includes a first pattern feature, a second pattern feature spaced a first distance (corresponding with a first width of a first spacer fabricated during a first spacer patterning process) from the first pattern feature, and a third pattern feature spaced a second distance (corresponding with a second width of a second spacer fabricated during a second spacer patterning process) from the first pattern feature and a third distance (corresponding with a third width of a third spacer formed during the second spacer patterning process) from the second pattern feature.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the forming the plurality of features over the substrate includes forming conductive features over the substrate, wherein the conductive features include copper, aluminum, gold, tungsten, alloys thereof, or combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84906
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15668930', '15173840', '14262279', '14266878', '15174131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.915197215740762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.520258296946201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.875703323861306
- Mean Citation Score: 254.466194
- Max Citation Score: 285.2498
- Similarity Product: 195.2133908969641

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