PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "077000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment of a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor material that comprises SiC and forming an electrically conductive contact layer on the semiconductor material. A non-ohmic contact is formed between the semiconductor material and the electrically conductive contact layer. The electrically conductive contact layer comprises a metal nitride with a nitrogen content between 10 to 50 atomic %. Additional embodiments of manufacturing a semiconductor device are described.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the metal nitride comprises a metal selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, titanium, tantalum and tungsten.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14572872', '14822267', '13872391', '13906738', '10970026']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9304626111958436
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4536874015731688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8827850902335762
- Mean Citation Score: 172.602196
- Max Citation Score: 195.28279
- Similarity Product: 182.9703901436401

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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