PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "311000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating an integrated circuit in accordance with some embodiments. The method includes forming a source and a drain on a fin active region of a semiconductor substrate; depositing an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the source and drain; patterning the ILD layer to form a first contact hole and a second contact hole aligning with the source and drain, respectively; forming a dielectric material layer in the first contact hole; and forming a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature in the first and second contact holes, respectively.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit, comprising:\n forming a source and a drain on a fin active region of a semiconductor substrate; depositing an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the source and drain; patterning the ILD layer to form a through hole to expose the drain; patterning the ILD to form a recess hole vertically aligning with the source and with a bottom portion of the ILD remained within the recess hole; and depositing to form a first conductive feature in the recess hole and a second conductive feature in the through hole, wherein the first conductive feature is separated from the source by the bottom portion of the ILD and the second conductive feature directly contacts the drain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07843
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15800359', '15864525', '15803083', '14504258', '14942740']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9258171613284016
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4903275162143685
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8822681968169983
- Mean Citation Score: 227.521044
- Max Citation Score: 243.49124
- Similarity Product: 196.3067806402135

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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