PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["438", "199000"]

Abstract:
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, performing at least one etching process to expose at least a portion of an upper surface of a gate electrode of a first transistor device and at least a vertical portion of one side surface of the gate electrode and performing a material growth process to form a conductive gate-to-source/drain (GSD) contact structure that conductively couples the gate electrode of the first transistor device to a source/drain region of the first transistor device, wherein the conductive GSD contact structure comprises a non-single crystal material portion positioned on previously exposed portions of the gate electrode and a single crystal material portion positioned in the source/drain region.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein performing said GSD contact material growth process forms said single crystal material portion of said conductive GSD contact structure on a semiconductor substrate located adjacent said gate electrode of said first transistor device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15791650', '15791711', '15813471', '15047137', '15214670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8781381575018056
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078610485834595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.841110446609971
- Mean Citation Score: 251.400774
- Max Citation Score: 277.93906
- Similarity Product: 205.1159878588986

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

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