PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959727
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "529000"]

Abstract:
Interconnect structures and methods of fabricating an interconnect structure. A first interconnect and a second interconnect extend in a first direction in a interlayer dielectric layer and are spaced apart from each other. A third interconnect is arranged in the interlayer dielectric layer to connect the first interconnect with the second interconnect. The first interconnect and the second interconnect have a first width, and the third interconnect has a second width that is less than the first width.

Claim (Index 10):
A method comprising:\n forming a first mandrel line extending in a first direction over an interlayer dielectric layer; cutting the first mandrel line into a first section and a second section separated from the first section by a first gap; forming a first sidewall spacer on the first section of the first mandrel line and a second sidewall spacer on the second section of the first mandrel line that are spaced apart inside the first gap by a connecting line that connects a first non-mandrel line and a second non-mandrel line flanking the first mandrel line; transferring the first non-mandrel line, the second non-mandrel line, and the connecting line to a first trench, a second trench, and a third trench in the interlayer dielectric layer; and filling the first trench, the second trench, and the third trench with conductor, wherein the conductor in the first trench defines a first interconnect, the conductor in the second trench defines a second interconnect, the first interconnect and the second interconnect have a first width, and the conductor in the third trench defines a third interconnect having a second width that is less than the first width.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02439
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15587597', '15605327', '15490181', '15899685', '15290277']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.929313692981254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5272104709209146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.88910337077522
- Mean Citation Score: 321.92293
- Max Citation Score: 358.43845
- Similarity Product: 299.34038686726086

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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