PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861158
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "004000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a resistive switching device (RSD) that includes a first terminal, a second terminal, an active region having a switchable conduction state, and a protuberant contact communicatively coupled to the first terminal. The protuberant contact is configured to communicatively couple the first terminal through a first barrier liner to a first electrode line of a crossbar array. In embodiments of the invention, the protuberant contact is positioned with respect to the first barrier liner such that the first barrier liner does not impacting the switchable conduction state of the active region. In embodiments of the invention, the protuberant contact is positioned with respect to the first barrier liner such that the first barrier liner does not directly contact the first terminal.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 15  further comprising:\n forming a bottom region of an interlayer dielectric (ILD) over a substrate; \n forming the first one of the set of conductive column electrode lines in the bottom region of the ILD; \n forming the RSD over the first one of the set of conductive column electrode lines such that the RSD is communicatively coupled to the first one of the set of conductive column electrode lines; \n forming a sacrificial barrier region over the RSD; \n forming an encapsulating layer around the sacrificial barrier region and the RSD; \n forming a top region of the ILD over the bottom region of the ILD and the encapsulating layer; \n removing portions of the top region of the ILD to form a trench over the encapsulating layer and expose a top portion of the encapsulating layer; \n removing the top portion of the encapsulating layer to expose the sacrificial barrier region; \n removing the sacrificial barrier region to expose the first terminal of the RSD; \n forming the protuberant contact over the first terminal of the RSD such that the protuberant contact communicatively couples to the first terminal; \n forming the first barrier liner and the first one of the set of conductive row electrode lines in the trench such that the protuberant contact communicatively couples the first terminal through a first barrier liner to a first one of the set of conductive row electrode lines.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55556
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14966394', '14887564', '15814932', '15262582', '14731933']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9090286297119556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805374974767674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8661795164884369
- Mean Citation Score: 176.253784
- Max Citation Score: 188.14218
- Similarity Product: 137.12210250054716

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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