PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922682
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
The current disclosure provides a semiconductor fabrication method that defines the height of gate structures at the formation of the gate structure. A gate line-end region is formed by removing a portion of a gate structure. A resulted recess is filled with a dielectric material is chosen to have a material property suitable for a later contact formation process of forming a metal contact. A metal contact structure is formed through the recess filling dielectric layer to connect to a gate structure and/or a source/drain region.

Claim (Index 17):
A semiconductor structure, comprising:\n a substrate,\n a gate structure over the substrate and laterally adjacent to a first dielectric layer, \n a dielectric body in coplanar alignment with the gate structure and laterally surrounded by the first dielectric layer; \n a source/drain region; \n a second dielectric layer over the gate structure and the first dielectric layer, the dielectric body being an integral part of the second dielectric layer; and \n a conductive contact structure extending, as an integral structure, from an upper surface of the second dielectric layer through the second dielectric layer and at least partially through the first dielectric layer to the source/drain region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12756662', '14187896', '12487894', '14083533', '10707757']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.907721460046244
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4687593508743388
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8638252491290537
- Mean Citation Score: 160.829368
- Max Citation Score: 168.1732
- Similarity Product: 129.00328210937977

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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