PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["438", "199000"]

Abstract:
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, performing at least one etching process to expose at least a portion of an upper surface of a gate electrode of a first transistor device and at least a vertical portion of one side surface of the gate electrode and performing a material growth process to form a conductive gate-to-source/drain (GSD) contact structure that conductively couples the gate electrode of the first transistor device to a source/drain region of the first transistor device, wherein the conductive GSD contact structure comprises a non-single crystal material portion positioned on previously exposed portions of the gate electrode and a single crystal material portion positioned in the source/drain region.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein performing said GSD contact material growth process also forms a second single crystal epi semiconductor material in a source/drain region of a second transistor device and a layer of said second single crystal epi semiconductor material on said first single crystal epi semiconductor material on said first transistor device, wherein said first and second transistor devices are opposite type devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15791650', '15791711', '15813471', '15047137', '15214670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8775435283405717
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5151548116054854
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.841304656667063
- Mean Citation Score: 251.400774
- Max Citation Score: 277.93906
- Similarity Product: 177.33322445918202

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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