PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16224062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. In an embodiment a first contact is formed to a source/drain region and a dielectric layer is formed over the first contact. An opening is formed to expose the first contact, and the opening is lined with a dielectric material. A second contact is formed in electrical contact with the first contact through the dielectric material.

Claim (Index 17):
A method comprising:\n forming a first transistor comprising a first gate structure, a first source/drain region, and a second source/drain region; forming a second transistor comprising a second gate structure, the first source/drain region, and a third source/drain region; forming a first contact to the first source/drain region; forming a first dielectric layer over the first gate structure and the second gate structure; patterning the first dielectric layer to form a first opening through the first dielectric layer, the first opening exposing the first contact; lining sidewalls of the first opening with a dielectric liner; and filling a remainder of the first opening with a conductive material to form a second contact, the second contact extending through the dielectric liner to make contact with the first contact, the dielectric liner physically separating the second contact from the first gate structure and the second gate structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15394362', '15474187', '15058864', '16222300', '14985203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9100408243122736
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900084451403622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8680375863950823
- Mean Citation Score: 190.306196
- Max Citation Score: 229.28093
- Similarity Product: 172.25050311504242

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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