PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991268
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "328000"]

Abstract:
At least one diode, lower-level metal interconnect structures embedded within lower-level dielectric material layers, and a doped semiconductor material layer are formed over a semiconductor substrate. An electrically conductive path is provided between the at least one diode and the doped semiconductor material layer. An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers and memory stack structures extending therethrough are formed above the doped semiconductor material layer. A backside trench is formed through the alternating stack. The electrically conductive path is employed during plasma etch processes employed to form the memory stack structures and the backside trench to provide a discharge path for accumulated electrical charges. The electrically conductive path is subsequently disconnected by removing a conductive component underlying the backside trench. The spacer material layers can be replaced with electrically conductive layers employing the backside trench.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising forming field effect transistors on a top surface of the substrate,\n wherein:\n at least one of the lower-level metal interconnect structures is electrically connected to a respective node of the field effect transistors; and \n the at least one diode comprises at least one doped portion of a semiconductor material of the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07042
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15489050', '15638672', '15877219', '15175450', '15269294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9398012856338538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5518299928913674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9010041563596052
- Mean Citation Score: 420.340858
- Max Citation Score: 436.81467
- Similarity Product: 336.2884718304866

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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