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 18):
The semiconductor device as claimed in  claim 16 , wherein the first spacer has an outer sidewall, and the first inclined surface is between the outer sidewall of the first spacer and the second inclined surface of the second spacer.

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): 0.8711335088376151
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4689516191083256
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8309153198646861
- Mean Citation Score: 198.38598
- Max Citation Score: 208.47243
- Similarity Product: 184.6000408516645

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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