PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042164
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["438", "197000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a protection element over the gate stack, and a top and a bottom of the protection element have different widths. The semiconductor device further includes a spacer over a side surface of the protection element and a sidewall of the gate stack. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a conductive contact electrically connected to a conductive feature over the semiconductor substrate.

Claim (Index 5):
The semiconductor device as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the spacer has an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall, the inner sidewall is between the outer sidewall and the gate stack, and an upper portion of the inner sidewall inclines towards the outer sidewall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34211
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14827092', '15467643', '14743768', '15223946', '14930231']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8699461509446732
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795795963183026
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8309094954820362
- Mean Citation Score: 198.38598
- Max Citation Score: 208.47243
- Similarity Product: 167.1037542422408

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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