PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898569
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "384000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to middle of line structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a plurality of gate structures comprising source and drain regions; contacts connecting to the source and drain regions; contacts connecting to the gate structures which are offset from the contacts connecting to the source and drain regions; and interconnect structures in electrical contact with the contacts of the gate structures and the contacts of the source and drain regions.

Claim (Index 19):
A method, comprising:\n forming a plurality of gate structures comprising source and drain regions and gate materials; forming an interlevel dielectric layer comprising a sacrificial layer and a dielectric cap over source and drain regions of gate structures; opening a portion of the dielectric cap to expose the sacrificial layer; removing the sacrificial layer to expose the source and drain regions; exposing the gate materials; forming offset metallization features at the same time on the exposed gate materials and the exposed source and drain regions; and forming offset contacts extending from the metallization features.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19512
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15873565', '15399200', '15658570', '15868479', '15793621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9275041301788294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5059508946871945
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.885348806629666
- Mean Citation Score: 246.606762
- Max Citation Score: 266.16766
- Similarity Product: 187.4182510288585

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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