PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043111
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Contact structures, FinFET devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. One of the contact structures includes a source/drain region, a mask layer, a connector and a shielding pattern. The source/drain region is between two gate stacks. A mask layer is over the gate stacks and has an opening corresponding to the source/drain region. The connector is electrically connected to the source/drain region, penetrates through the opening of the mask layer and protrudes above and below the mask layer. The shielding pattern is between the mask layer and the connector and in physical contact with the mask layer.

Claim (Index 6):
The contact structure of  claim 1 , wherein the mask layer and the shielding pattern comprise the same material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27083
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14990797', '14990794', '14990796', '15652271', '15701416']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9205434790041344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4755378298190624
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8760429140856272
- Mean Citation Score: 188.135166
- Max Citation Score: 242.83113
- Similarity Product: 233.5087896879047

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

Dataset: test