PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
An integrated circuit and method comprising an underlying metal geometry, a dielectric layer on the underlying metal geometry, a contact opening through the dielectric layer, an overlying metal geometry wherein a portion of the overlying metal geometry fills a portion of the contact opening, and an oxidation resistant barrier layer disposed between the underlying metal geometry and overlying metal geometry. The oxidation resistant barrier layer is formed of TaN or TiN with a nitrogen content of at least 20 atomic % and a thickness of at least 5 nm.

Claim (Index 15):
The integrated circuit of  claim 12 , wherein the first barrier layer is formed of TaN with a thickness between 5 and 15 nm and with a nitrogen content between 20 and 35 atomic percent.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02128
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14974012', '15615963', '10945777', '11970207', '12316304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.930704385344976
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6008345977338965
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.897717406583868
- Mean Citation Score: 344.351728
- Max Citation Score: 526.5378
- Similarity Product: 478.9762971215129

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

Dataset: test