PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "125000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments provide semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same. In an exemplary structure, a substrate has a device region, a seal ring region surrounding the device region, and a dielectric layer disposed thereon. A first seal ring structure is located within the dielectric layer on the seal ring region, and includes a plurality of first connection layers overlappingly disposed and separated by the dielectric layer. At least one first connection layer is formed by a plurality of discrete sub-connection layers. The first seal ring structure further includes a plurality of first conductive plugs between vertically adjacent first connection layers. A top of each first conductive plug is connected to an upper first connection layer. A bottom of each first conductive plug between at least two vertically adjacent first connection layers extends into the dielectric layer between horizontally adjacent sub-connection layers of a lower first connection layer.

Claim (Index 10):
The method according to  claim 1 , further including:\n forming a second seal ring structure within the dielectric layer on the seal ring region, wherein: the second seal ring structure surrounds the device region, and the second seal ring structure surrounds the first seal ring structure, or the first seal ring structure surrounds the second seal ring structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30435
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15220679', '14288494', '15180508', '12756982', '13660392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8782311071520574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.527549647017839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8431629611386355
- Mean Citation Score: 257.384892
- Max Citation Score: 351.29297
- Similarity Product: 307.6075703858114

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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