PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872429
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "537000"]

Abstract:
A device including a thin film resistor (TFR) structure. The TFR structure is accessible by one or more conductive vias that extend vertically from an upper metal layer to completely penetrate a TFR layer positioned thereunder. The conductive vias are coupled to one or more sidewalls of the TFR layer at or near the sites of penetration. The TFR structure can be manufactured by a method that includes etching a via trench completely through the TFR layer and a dielectric layer above the TFR layer, and filling the via trench with a conductor coupled to a sidewall of the TFR layer.

Claim (Index 18):
The device of  claim 14 , wherein the TFR layer includes a silicon chromium (SiCr) intermetallic mixture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13901337', '12624442', '15855576', '10727392', '15855635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9234415854686489
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4761516238064037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8787125893024244
- Mean Citation Score: 199.74506
- Max Citation Score: 208.90234
- Similarity Product: 172.68748065736057

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

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