PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883238
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "065000"]

Abstract:
A conductive layer is formed between a metal gate structure, which includes a high-k gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode, and a contact feature. The conductive layer can be selectively deposited on a top surface of the gate electrode or, alternatively, non-selectively formed on the top surface of the gate electrode and the gate dielectric layer by controlling, for example, time of deposition. The conductive layer can have a bottom portion embedded into the gate electrode. The conductive layer and the contact feature can include the same composition, though they may be formed using different deposition techniques.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 15 , further comprising applying plasma to treat the top surface of the metal gate structure prior to selectively depositing the conductive layer, wherein applying the plasma and selectively depositing the conductive layer are implemented in a same tool.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0566
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15010798', '15599045', '15808618', '15862930', '15651248']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.906976065396888
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479532404522235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8642316993094227
- Mean Citation Score: 155.59070799999995
- Max Citation Score: 156.68076000000005
- Similarity Product: 106.62146741734033

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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