PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "319000"]

Abstract:
Methods for forming semiconductor structures are disclosed, including a method that involves forming sets of conductive material and insulating material, forming a first mask over the sets, forming a first number of contact regions, forming a second mask over a first region of the sets, and removing material from the sets in a second, exposed region laterally adjacent the first region to form a second number of contact regions. Another method includes forming first and second contact regions on portions of sets of conductive materials and insulating materials, each of the second contact regions more proximal to an underlying substrate than each of the first contact regions. Apparatuses such as memory devices including laterally adjacent first and second regions each of which including contact regions of a different portion of a plurality of conductive materials and related methods of forming such devices are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A semiconductor device comprising an array region and a stair-step region, the stair-step region comprising:\n a stair-step structure comprising sets of conductive material and insulative material, the sets of conductive material and insulative material comprising:\n a first group of sets of the conductive material and insulative material, the first group comprising first contact regions; \n a second group of sets of the conductive material and insulative material, the second group comprising second contact regions; \n a third group of sets of the conductive material and insulative material, the third group comprising third contact regions; and \n a fourth group of sets of the conductive material and insulative material, the fourth group comprising fourth contact regions, wherein the contact regions of each of the first group, the second group, the third group, and the fourth group are vertically offset from the contact regions of the other of the first group, the second group, the third group, and the fourth group relative to an underlying substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54098
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14679488', '13151892', '14015696', '15288522', '15606415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9171678599124378
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.542773592055307
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8797284331267247
- Mean Citation Score: 338.6021100000001
- Max Citation Score: 383.56992
- Similarity Product: 289.6782788232422

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

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