PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, at least one first gate structure, at least one first spacer, at least one source drain structure, at least one conductive plug, and at least one protection layer. The first gate structure is present on the substrate. The first spacer is present on at least one sidewall of the first gate structure. The source drain structure is present adjacent to the first spacer. The conductive plug is electrically connected to the source drain structure. The protection layer is present between the conductive plug and the spacer.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n forming a gate structure over a substrate; forming a source/drain structure over the substrate and adjacent the gate structure; forming a dielectric layer over the gate structure and the source/drain structure; forming a recess in the dielectric layer, a first portion of the dielectric layer being interposed between a bottom of the recess and the source/drain structure; forming a protection layer on sidewalls and the bottom of the recess; extending the recess toward the source/drain structure to form an extended recess, the extended recess exposing the source/drain structure; and forming a conductive plug in the extended recess, the conductive plug being electrically connected to the source/drain structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.12121
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15048942', '15652176', '16051025', '14987598', '16050747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9130601816567372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4740652774339101
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8691606912344545
- Mean Citation Score: 187.00892
- Max Citation Score: 190.529
- Similarity Product: 148.18015097159147

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

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