PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "329000"]

Abstract:
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming a first transistor for an inverter and forming asymmetrically spaced first and second conductive contact structures that are conductively coupled to the source region and the drain region, respectively, of the transistor. In this example, the first conductive contact structure (for the source region) is positioned a first predetermined target distance from a first side of the gate structure of the transistor, and the second conductive contact structure (for the drain region) is positioned a second predetermined target distance from a second side of the gate structure, wherein the second predetermined target distance is less than the first predetermined target distance.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein forming said asymmetrically spaced first and second conductive contact structures and forming said symmetrically spaced third and fourth conductive contact structures comprises:\n forming at least one layer of insulating material above at least said source region and said drain region of both said first and second transistors; forming a patterned etch mask above said at least one layer of insulating material, said patterned etch mask comprising a plurality of mask openings; performing at least one etching process through said mask openings in said patterned etch mask to form first, second, third and fourth contact openings in said at least one layer of insulating material; and performing at least one common processing operation to form said asymmetrically spaced first and second conductive contact structures in said first and second contact openings, respectively, and said symmetrically spaced third and fourth conductive contact structures in said third and fourth contact openings, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15861097', '15861161', '15804556', '15813471', '15903203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.922015738903453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5039395996417286
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8802081249772805
- Mean Citation Score: 261.92158200000006
- Max Citation Score: 271.06927
- Similarity Product: 196.2917910567033

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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