PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911884
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "411000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a metal gate electrode structure and an insulating layer over the semiconductor substrate. The insulating layer surrounds the metal gate electrode structure. The method includes nitrifying a first top portion of the metal gate electrode structure to form a metal nitride layer over the metal gate electrode structure.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the nitrifying further includes nitrifying a top surface of the insulating layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14940832', '15425639', '15247547', '14037881', '14455512']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.918596338676463
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4828316165829718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8750198664671138
- Mean Citation Score: 171.389306
- Max Citation Score: 181.7207
- Similarity Product: 130.14608967199322

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

Dataset: test