PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049589
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a source/drain region, a source/drain silicide layer formed on the source/drain region, and a first contact disposed over the source/drain silicide layer. The first contact includes a first metal layer, an upper surface of the first metal layer is at least covered by a silicide layer, and the silicide layer includes a same metal element as the first metal layer.

Claim (Index 12):
The semiconductor layer of  claim 7 , wherein the silicide layer partially covers an upper surface of the first contact and the insulating layer is in contact with a remaining part of the upper surface not covered by the silicide layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12121
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15378574', '15886645', '15090202', '15485606', '15479418']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9261260445202084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4983873789307734
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.883352177961265
- Mean Citation Score: 202.853828
- Max Citation Score: 240.21002
- Similarity Product: 172.9987271784711

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

Dataset: test