PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935871
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "369000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes transistors over a substrate, and first, second, and third metallization layers over the transistors. The first, second, and third metallization layer includes first, second, and third metal features, respectively. The second metal features are oriented lengthwise substantially perpendicular to the first metal features, and the third metal features are oriented lengthwise substantially parallel to the first metal features. The first, second, and third metal features have a first, second, and third thickness, respectively, along a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. The second thickness is smaller than both the first and the third thicknesses.

Claim (Index 11):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n FinFET transistors over a substrate, the FinFET transistors being arranged into abutting standard cells, each standard cell including a p-type FinFET transistor and an n-type FinFET transistor, gate stacks of the FinFET transistors being oriented lengthwise along a first direction; a first metallization layer over the FinFET transistors, the first metallization layer including first metal features disposed in a first dielectric layer, the first metal features being oriented lengthwise along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, the first metal features having a first thickness along a third direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate; a second metallization layer over the first metallization layer, the second metallization layer including second metal features disposed in a second dielectric layer, the second metal features being oriented lengthwise substantially parallel to the first direction, the second metal features having a second thickness along the third direction; and a third metallization layer over the second metallization layer, the third metallization layer including third metal features disposed in a third dielectric layer, the third metal features being oriented lengthwise substantially parallel to the second direction, the third metal features having a third thickness along the first direction, wherein the second thickness is smaller than both the first and the third thicknesses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.97561
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15625490', '14191789', '15345125', '15827709', '14555423']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8907435881062948
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4737941491809113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8490486442137566
- Mean Citation Score: 157.46333599999997
- Max Citation Score: 174.47758000000005
- Similarity Product: 138.6043823108649

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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