PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to manufacturing techniques and respective semiconductor devices in which the capping material of gate electrode structures may be removed together with portions of the capping material of resistors on the basis of a highly controllable directional etch process, wherein raised drain and source regions may be protected on the basis of a fill material.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n forming a transistor element in and on a semiconductor layer, said transistor element comprising a gate electrode structure that is covered by a capping material and laterally enclosed by sidewall spacer elements, said capping material having a top surface that is positioned at a first height level above said semiconductor layer; forming a fill material adjacent to said gate electrode structure, said fill material having an upper surface that is positioned at a second height level above said semiconductor layer that is lower than said first height level and that exposes said top surface and at least a portion of a sidewall surface of said capping material; and removing said capping material in the presence of said fill material by applying an anisotropic etch process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36364
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11559462', '14722818', '12905655', '11466802', '13198107']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9159654930014548
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739745545186449
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8717663991531737
- Mean Citation Score: 209.26946
- Max Citation Score: 221.54156
- Similarity Product: 191.5511585386753

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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