PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "383000"]

Abstract:
Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may include forming a structure comprising a first contact metal disposed on a source/drain contact of a substrate, and a second contact metal disposed on a top surface of the first contact metal, wherein the second contact metal is disposed within an ILD disposed on a top surface of a metal gate disposed on the substrate.

Claim (Index 2):
An integrated circuit structure including at least one transistor, the integrated circuit structure comprising:\n a gate structure including one or more metals; a source region on a first side of the gate structure; a drain region on a second side of the gate structure opposite the first side; a first spacer adjacent to the first side of the gate structure, the first spacer including dielectric material; a second spacer adjacent to the second side of the gate structure, the second spacer including dielectric material; a nitride layer laterally adjacent to the first spacer, such that the first spacer is between the gate structure and the nitride layer; a first contact structure over the source region, the first contact structure including one or more metals; a second contact structure in contact with the first contact structure, the second contact structure including one or more metals, the second contact structure having a top portion wider than a bottom portion; a third contact structure over the drain region, the third contact structure including one or more metals; a fourth contact structure in contact with the third contact structure, the fourth contact structure including one or more metals, the fourth contact structure having a top portion wider than a bottom portion; a first dielectric layer above the gate structure, the first spacer, the second spacer, and the nitride layer, at least a portion of the first dielectric layer between the bottom portion of the second contact structure and the bottom portion of the fourth contact structure; and a second dielectric layer above the first dielectric layer, at least a portion of the second dielectric layer between the top portion of the second contact structure and the top portion of the fourth contact structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02778
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14581498', '14994109', '15220270', '14284808', '12215991']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.92366782648374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922138612960836
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8805224299649743
- Mean Citation Score: 199.258866
- Max Citation Score: 203.94705
- Similarity Product: 182.390888979882

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

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