PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to middle of the line self-aligned direct pattern contacts and methods of manufacture. The structures described herein include: at least one gate structure with a metallization and source/drain regions; a source/drain contact in electrical connection with the source/drain regions, respectively; and a contact structure with a re-entrant profile in electrical connection with the source/drain contact and the metallization of the at least one gate structure, respectively.

Claim (Index 12):
A structure comprising:\n a plurality of gate structures each of which are composed of a metallization and source/drain regions; a plurality of source/drain contacts in electrical connection with the source/drain regions of the plurality of gate structures; a first set of contact structures with a re-entrant profile in electrical connection with selected source/drain contacts of the plurality of source source/drain contacts and an overhang that overlaps onto spacers on opposing sides of the selected source/drain contacts; a second set of contact structures with a re-entrant profile in electrical connection with the metallization of selected gate structures of the plurality of gate structures and an overhang that overlaps onto spacers on opposing sides of the selected gate structures; and metal wiring features in electrical connection with sidewalls of selected ones of the first set and second set of the plurality of contact structures.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93182
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399200', '15658570', '15345882', '15437065', '15647400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9170505442038254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4956567177728306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8749111615607259
- Mean Citation Score: 227.345544
- Max Citation Score: 255.07521
- Similarity Product: 196.55009153125764

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

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