PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "311000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating an integrated circuit in accordance with some embodiments. The method includes forming a source and a drain on a fin active region of a semiconductor substrate; depositing an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the source and drain; patterning the ILD layer to form a first contact hole and a second contact hole aligning with the source and drain, respectively; forming a dielectric material layer in the first contact hole; and forming a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature in the first and second contact holes, respectively.

Claim (Index 13):
A method, comprising:\n forming a metal gate stack on a fin active region of a semiconductor substrate; forming a source and a drain on the fin active region, the source and drain being doped with a same type of dopant; forming a silicide layer self-aligned on the metal gate stack; forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the source and the drain; patterning the ILD layer to form a first contact hole and a second contact hole aligning with the source and drain, respectively; forming a dielectric material layer in the first contact hole; and forming a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature in the first and second contact holes, respectively, wherein the first conductive feature is separated from the source by the dielectric material layer and the second conductive feature directly contacts the drain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07843
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15800359', '15864525', '15803083', '14504258', '14942740']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9256634066592468
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4927995952814635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8823770255214686
- Mean Citation Score: 227.521044
- Max Citation Score: 243.49124
- Similarity Product: 190.2719416691304

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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