PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916575
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "758000"]

Abstract:
Conductive structures include stair step structures positioned along a length of the conductive structure and at least one landing comprising at least one via extending through the conductive structure. The at least one landing is positioned between a first stair step structure of the stair step structures and a second stair step structure of the stair step structures. Devices may include such conductive structures. Systems may include a semiconductor device and stair step structures separated by at least one landing having at least one via formed in the at least one landing. Methods of forming conductive structures include forming at least one via through a landing positioned between stair step structures.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 , further comprising:\n forming an opening through the stack of material; removing a portion of the second sacrificial insulative material adjacent the opening in a volume of the second sacrificial material underlying the first insulative material; and depositing a conductive material in the opening and in the volume from which the portion of the second sacrificial material is removed to form the conductive portion of at least one step of the stair step structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82927
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15068329', '14837978', '13151945', '15393553', '15858072']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9163222914187868
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5304092515729787
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.877730987434206
- Mean Citation Score: 244.95480200000003
- Max Citation Score: 356.12405
- Similarity Product: 269.51088000970486

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

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