PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049303
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure, the method including: forming a doped metal layer within a contact opening in an inter-level dielectric (ILD) material on a conductive region, such that the doped metal layer overlies the conductive region, the doped metal layer including a first metal doped with a second metal; and forming a contact to the conductive region within the contact opening of the ILD material by annealing the doped metal layer such that the second metal diffuses into the ILD material to form an interface liner directly between the annealed doped metal layer and the ILD material, the interface liner formed only on sidewalls of the contact opening and in direct contact with the ILD material and only at an interface of the doped metal layer and the ILD material.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first metal includes cobalt (Co).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59322
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15221647', '13689839', '15497728', '15949544', '15888999']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9266816822610824
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5543338743671842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8894469014716927
- Mean Citation Score: 279.00666800000005
- Max Citation Score: 410.27637
- Similarity Product: 403.376860899142

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

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