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 12):
An inverter, comprising:\n a first transistor and a second transistor that are of opposite types, each of said first and second transistors comprising a source region and a drain region, said first and second transistors sharing a first gate structure having first and second opposing sides; a conductive source contact structure that is conductively coupled to said source region of said first transistor, wherein said conductive source contact structure has a first lateral dimension in a gate length direction of said first transistor at a first level corresponding to an upper surface of said first gate structure, and wherein said conductive source contact structure is positioned a first distance from said first side of said first gate structure at said first level; and a common conductive drain contact structure that is conductively coupled to said drain region of both said first and second transistors, wherein said common conductive drain contact structure has a second lateral dimension at said first level, wherein said second lateral dimension is greater than said first lateral dimension, and wherein said common conductive drain contact structure is positioned a second distance from said second side of said first gate structure at said first level, said second distance being less than said first distance.

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): 0.922255476233154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4997474881491477
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8800046774247534
- Mean Citation Score: 261.92158200000006
- Max Citation Score: 271.06927
- Similarity Product: 210.79656505793216

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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