PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881186
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "409000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a transistor at a surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the step of forming the transistor comprises forming a gate electrode, and forming a source/drain region adjacent the gate electrode. First metal features are formed to include at least portions at a same level as the gate electrode. Second metal features are formed simultaneously, and are over and contacting the first metal features. A first one of the second metal features is removed and replaced with a third metal feature, wherein a second one of the second metal features is not removed. A fourth metal feature is formed directly over and contacting the gate electrode, wherein the third and the fourth metal features are formed using a same metal-filling process.

Claim (Index 9):
The device of  claim 8 , further comprising a first plurality of conductive vias, each of the first plurality of conductive vias having a third width, wherein:\n a first one of the first plurality of conductive vias is electrically connected to and disposed directly over the first source/drain region, the first conductive via being electrically connected to and disposed directly over the first one of the plurality of conductive vias; and a second one of the first plurality of conductive vias is electrically connected to and disposed directly over the anode, the second conductive via being electrically connected to and disposed directly over the second one of the plurality of conductive vias.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48148
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15215306', '13149547', '14059123', '13349723', '13362411']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9108942239353572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4945649622572232
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8692612977675439
- Mean Citation Score: 193.701854
- Max Citation Score: 243.10864
- Similarity Product: 181.99656328936567

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

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