PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to middle of the line self-aligned direct pattern contacts and methods of manufacture. The structures described herein include: at least one gate structure with a metallization and source/drain regions; a source/drain contact in electrical connection with the source/drain regions, respectively; and a contact structure with a re-entrant profile in electrical connection with the source/drain contact and the metallization of the at least one gate structure, respectively.

Claim (Index 4):
The structure of  claim 3 , wherein the additional contact structures have a reverse tapered profile and at least one of the additional contact structures are in electrical connection with two of the additional selected gate structures while also spanning over a source/drain contact between the two additional selected gate structures, the capping materials are provided directly on a top surface of the source drain contact between the two additional selected gate structures to electrically isolate the contact structure between the two additional selected gate structures from the remaining source/drain contacts and the gate structures.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93182
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399200', '15658570', '15345882', '15437065', '15647400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9250521651826856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5080751390701218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8833544625714292
- Mean Citation Score: 227.345544
- Max Citation Score: 255.07521
- Similarity Product: 168.10790697981295

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

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