PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880059
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "666000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a gate tie-down includes opening up a cap layer and recessing gate spacers on a gate structure to expose a gate conductor; forming inner spacers on the gate spacers; etching contact openings adjacent to sides of the gate structure down to a substrate below the gate structures; and forming trench contacts on sides of the gate structure. An interlevel dielectric (ILD) is deposited on the gate conductor and the trench contacts and over the gate structure. The ILD is opened up to expose the trench contact on one side of the gate structure and the gate conductor. A second conductive material provides a self-aligned contact down to the trench contact on the one side and to form a gate contact down to the gate conductor and a horizontal connection within the ILD over an active area between the gate conductor and the self-aligned contact.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for forming a gate tie-down, comprising:\n recessing gate spacers on a gate structure to expose a gate conductor; exposing trench contacts on sides of the gate structure; forming a conductive material in an opening through an interlevel dielectric (ILD) to form a self-aligned contact down to a trench contact on one side of the gate structure and to form a gate contact down to the gate conductor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15175776', '15699322', '15443523', '14822654', '15618880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9090952222328198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5881072556715559
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8769964255766934
- Mean Citation Score: 499.740234
- Max Citation Score: 501.17242000000016
- Similarity Product: 470.6488226528288

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

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