PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940872
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a source/drain region, a silicide layer on the source/drain region, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer over the silicide layer, and a source drain contact. The source/drain contact has a top portion extending through the ILD layer and a bottom portion embedded in the silicide layer.

Claim (Index 7):
The semiconductor device of  claim 1 , wherein the bottom portion of the source/drain contact has a pointed tip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77143
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399064', '15282349', '14792467', '15167111', '15147635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8965228134059403
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675732264529014
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8536278547106364
- Mean Citation Score: 122.795932
- Max Citation Score: 126.92125
- Similarity Product: 95.87405054047704

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

Dataset: test