PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947991
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "329000"]

Abstract:
Methods of forming contacts for vertical-transport field-effect transistors and structures for a vertical-transport field-effect transistor and contact. An interlayer dielectric layer is deposited over a gate stack, and a first opening is formed in the interlayer dielectric layer and penetrates through the gate stack to cut the gate stack into a first section and a second section. A dielectric pillar is formed in the first opening and is arranged between the first section of the gate stack and the second section of the gate stack. Second and third openings are formed in the interlayer dielectric layer that penetrate to the gate stack and that are divided by the dielectric pillar. A first contact in the second opening is coupled with the first section of the gate stack, and a second contact in the third opening is coupled with the second section of the gate stack.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14  wherein the material is a conductor, and the second opening and the pillar self-align the conductor into a first contact aligned with the first section of the gate stack and a second contact aligned with the second section of the gate stack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15658835', '15928783', '15800563', '15427594', '15586621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9257290865473216
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5024144335334858
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8833976212459381
- Mean Citation Score: 227.61442
- Max Citation Score: 235.51648
- Similarity Product: 157.2405948479271

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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