PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882301
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "753000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of trenches in a dielectric layer, wherein the plurality of trenches each comprise a rounded surface, depositing a liner layer on the rounded surface of each of plurality of trenches, and depositing a conductive layer on the liner layer in each of the plurality of trenches, wherein the conductive layer and the liner layer form a plurality of interconnects, and each of the plurality of interconnects has a cylindrical shape.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 5 , further comprising depositing dielectric cap layer on the dielectric layer and on the conductive layer corresponding to each of the plurality of trenches and including the plurality of metal cap layers thereon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63636
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15210437', '15705426', '15609594', '15202656', '14755440']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9237903936881064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5111491049997523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.882526264819271
- Mean Citation Score: 272.432104
- Max Citation Score: 301.54874
- Similarity Product: 226.19622627796767

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