PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185137
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "773000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same. The method comprises sequentially forming a target layer and a first mask layer on a substrate, patterning the first mask layer to form a first opening in the first mask layer, forming a spacer covering an inner wall of the first opening, forming on the first mask layer a first photoresist pattern having a second opening vertically overlapping at least a portion of the spacer, forming a third opening in the first mask layer that is adjacent to the first opening by using the spacer as a mask to remove a portion of the first mask layer that is exposed to the second opening, and using the first mask layer and the spacer as a mask to pattern the target layer.

Claim (Index 16):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n an insulating layer on a substrate; and a first metal line and a second metal line adjacent in a first direction to the first metal line, the first and second metal lines being formed openings in the insulating layer, wherein the first and second metal lines extend in parallel to each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the first metal line comprises:\n a first segment extending in the second direction; and \n a second segment at an end of the first segment and having a width that decreases towards the second direction, and \n wherein the second metal line comprises:\n a third segment extending in the second direction and adjacent to the first segment; and \n a fourth segment adjacent to the second segment and having a width that increases towards the second direction, \n wherein a minimum distance between the first segment and the third segment is substantially the same as a minimum distance between the second segment and the fourth segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65385
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13485230', '15179971', '16141923', '15704963', '16037460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8958086062913185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.492156596397925
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8554434053019792
- Mean Citation Score: 188.017006
- Max Citation Score: 194.4369
- Similarity Product: 137.4967573729813

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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