PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920727
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "763000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to conductive features, such as metal contacts, vias, lines, etc., and methods for forming those conductive features. In some embodiments, a structure includes a first dielectric layer over a substrate, a first conductive feature through the first dielectric layer, the first conductive feature comprising a first metal, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, and a second conductive feature through the second dielectric layer having a lower convex surface extending into the first conductive feature, wherein the lower convex surface of the second conductive feature has a tip end extending laterally under a bottom boundary of the second dielectric layer.

Claim (Index 27):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein the first conductive feature and the second conductive feature comprise different materials.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25926
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15887819', '15692212', '15474187', '15825533', '14801319']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9182496353189928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5014461878163623
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8765692905687298
- Mean Citation Score: 178.10361
- Max Citation Score: 189.18779
- Similarity Product: 113.37163241108536

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