PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16231070
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
Devices and structures that include a gate spacer having a gap or void are described along with methods of forming such devices and structures. In accordance with some embodiments, a structure includes a substrate, a gate stack over the substrate, a contact over the substrate, and a spacer disposed laterally between the gate stack and the contact. The spacer includes a first dielectric sidewall portion and a second dielectric sidewall portion. A void is disposed between the first dielectric sidewall portion and the second dielectric sidewall portion.

Claim (Index 11):
The semiconductor device of  claim 8 , wherein the first dielectric material encapsulates the void.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15419289', '14739977', '15905177', '14599246', '16222300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8416849924478844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4751225410479763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8050287473078936
- Mean Citation Score: 168.59416000000004
- Max Citation Score: 178.80388
- Similarity Product: 145.06472456887718

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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