PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032416
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "773000"]

Abstract:
Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to conductive features, such as metal contacts, vias, lines, etc., and methods for forming those conductive features. In an embodiment, a barrier layer is formed along a sidewall. A portion of the barrier layer along the sidewall is etched back by a wet etching process. After etching back the portion of the barrier layer, an underlying dielectric welding layer is exposed. A conductive material is formed along the barrier layer.

Claim (Index 21):
The structure of  claim 19 , wherein the dielectric layer and the dielectric welding layer have mismatched heights.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15880448', '15012147', '13343771', '11342099', '15993970']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.91394105556709
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.489335661960438
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8714805162064247
- Mean Citation Score: 144.568354
- Max Citation Score: 153.66261
- Similarity Product: 97.2393089844453

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

Dataset: test