PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["438", "672000"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a device includes exposing at least one of a source/drain contact plug or a gate contact plug to a metal ion source solution during a manufacturing process, wherein a constituent metal of a metal ion in the metal ion source solution and the at least one source/drain contact plug or gate contact plug is the same. If the source/drain contact plug or the gate contact plug is formed of cobalt, the metal ion source solution includes a cobalt ion source solution. If the source/drain contact plug or the gate contact plug is formed of tungsten, the metal ion source solution includes a tungsten ion source solution.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n forming a transistor comprising:\n forming a gate dielectric on a semiconductor region; \n forming a gate electrode over the gate dielectric; and \n forming a source/drain region extending into the semiconductor region; \n forming a source/drain contact plug over and electrically coupling the source/drain contact plug to the source/drain region; forming a gate contact plug over and electrically coupling the gate contact plug to the gate electrode; and during the forming of the transistor, exposing at least one of the source/drain contact plug or the gate contact plug to a metal ion source solution, wherein a constituent metal of a metal ion in the metal ion source solution and a constituent metal of the at least one contact plug are the same.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.22222
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15395057', '15613485', '15492113', '14024247', '14937301']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8218821899685577
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4494755342755456
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7846415243992564
- Mean Citation Score: 149.46955400000004
- Max Citation Score: 158.39601000000005
- Similarity Product: 144.32728890244067

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

Dataset: test