PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863990
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "392000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A substrate is provided, and the substrate has a first region. A barrier layer is then formed on the first region of the substrate. A first work function layer is formed on the barrier layer. An upper half portion of the first work function layer is converted into a non-volatile material layer. The non-volatile material layer is removed and a lower half portion of the first work function layer is kept.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of forming a semiconductor device, comprising:\n providing a substrate, the substrate having a first region; forming a barrier layer on the first region of the substrate; forming a first work function layer on the barrier layer; converting an upper half portion of the first work function layer into a non-volatile material layer; and removing the non-volatile material layer and keeping a lower half portion of the first work function layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28205
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15182620', '15046458', '14990806', '15475097', '12954946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9109476367581384
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4988609126754652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8697389643498712
- Mean Citation Score: 207.92995600000003
- Max Citation Score: 256.01056
- Similarity Product: 195.3300174800873

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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