PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206788
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["257", "406000"]

Abstract:
A method includes etching a dummy gate to form an opening. A gate dielectric layer is deposited in the opening. A blocking layer is deposited over the gate dielectric layer, wherein the blocking layer has a bottom portion over a bottom of the opening and a sidewall portion over a sidewall of the opening. An adhesive layer is deposited over the bottom portion of the blocking layer. A metal layer is deposited over the adhesive layer, wherein the metal layer is in contact with the sidewall portion of the blocking layer.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein depositing the metal layer is performed such that a sidewall of the metal layer is in contact with the sidewall portion of the first blocking layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.9697
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14033904', '16041664', '15898910', '15665957', '14969213']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9138791262497228
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4765175367068788
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8701429672954383
- Mean Citation Score: 129.763874
- Max Citation Score: 132.49002
- Similarity Product: 89.79560743012547

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

Dataset: test