PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "618000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The methods may include forming first and second line patterns. The first line pattern has a first side facing the second line pattern, and the second line pattern has a second side facing the first line pattern. The methods may also include forming a first spacer structure on the first side of the first line pattern and a second spacer structure on the second side of the second line pattern. The first and the second spacer structures may define an opening. The methods may further include forming a first conductor in a lower part of the opening, forming an expanded opening by etching upper portions of the first and second spacer structures, and forming a second conductor in the expanded opening. The expanded opening may have a width greater than a width of the lower part of the opening.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein a lowermost end of the portion of the second conductor in the recessed portion of the upper surface of the first spacer structure is higher than or at substantially the same level as the upper surface of the first conductor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.45652
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14734287', '14538832', '14859435', '13761376', '15207554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8669073336674042
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4863054486330387
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8288471451639677
- Mean Citation Score: 186.498928
- Max Citation Score: 193.11026
- Similarity Product: 138.10627828224182

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

Dataset: test