PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16224062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. In an embodiment a first contact is formed to a source/drain region and a dielectric layer is formed over the first contact. An opening is formed to expose the first contact, and the opening is lined with a dielectric material. A second contact is formed in electrical contact with the first contact through the dielectric material.

Claim (Index 8):
The device of  claim 1 , wherein top surfaces of the first dielectric layer, the first contact, and the dielectric liner are level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15394362', '15474187', '15058864', '16222300', '14985203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9188222209539604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992635602939149
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8768663548879558
- Mean Citation Score: 190.306196
- Max Citation Score: 229.28093
- Similarity Product: 157.85227794261098

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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