PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "532000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit configured to mitigate damage to MIM decoupling capacitors. In some embodiments, the integrated chip has a lower interconnect layer vertically separated from a substrate by a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer. A conductive contact extends from a transistor device within the substrate to an uppermost surface of the first ILD layer. A plurality of MIM (metal-insulator-metal) structures are arranged over the lower interconnect layer. An upper interconnect layer is over the plurality of MIM structures. One or both of the lower interconnect layer and the upper interconnect layer are comprised within a conductive path that electrically couples the plurality of MIM structures in a series connection.

Claim (Index 9):
The integrated chip of  claim 1 ,\n wherein the plurality of MIM structures respectively comprise a first lower electrode separated from a first upper electrode by a first dielectric layer; and wherein the first dielectric layer extends to either a first horizontal plane extending along a top surface of the first upper electrode or a second horizontal plane extending along a bottom surface of the first lower electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83824
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15418904', '14883808', '14249513', '14249482', '14289739']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.927576948388488
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5178618134976878
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.886605434899408
- Mean Citation Score: 262.950558
- Max Citation Score: 330.69165
- Similarity Product: 310.87334977412223

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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