PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16298331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a contact to a semiconductor device that includes forming a vertically orientated channel region on semiconductor material layer of a substrate; and forming a first source/drain region in the semiconductor material layer. The method may continue with forming a metal semiconductor alloy contact on the first source/drain region extending along a horizontally orientated upper surface of the first source/drain region that is substantially perpendicular to the vertically orientated channel region, wherein the metal semiconductor alloy contact extends substantially to an interface with the vertically orientated channel region. Thereafter, a gate structure is formed on the vertically orientated channel region, and a second source/drain region is formed on the vertically orientated channel region.

Claim (Index 2):
The vertical transistor of  claim 1 , wherein the vertical transistor is a p-type semiconductor device, and the metal semiconductor alloy contact is of a composition selected from the group consisting of titanium nickel silicide, titanium platinum silicide, titanium nickel germanide, titanium platinum germanide, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15887058', '15418097', '15157012', '15819398', '16298458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9417862657948572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5456005845195376
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9021676976673252
- Mean Citation Score: 318.315518
- Max Citation Score: 399.11166
- Similarity Product: 397.7363280312609

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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