PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure include contact structures and methods of forming the same. An embodiment is a method of forming a semiconductor device, the method including forming a contact region over a substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the contact region and the substrate, and forming an opening through the dielectric layer to expose a portion of the contact region. The method further includes forming a metal-silicide layer on the exposed portion of the contact region and along sidewalls of the opening; and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a conductive plug in the dielectric layer, the conductive plug being electrically coupled to the contact region.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein annealing the silicon-containing capping layer and the metal layer to form a metal-silicide layer is after depositing the glue layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26923
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15484934', '14321366', '15725867', '14955187', '14461285']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8563275726927686
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992299344036425
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8206178088638559
- Mean Citation Score: 204.09281
- Max Citation Score: 241.46434
- Similarity Product: 177.04213233005524

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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