PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "536000"]

Abstract:
A method is provided for forming an integrated thin film resistor (TFR) in a semiconductor integrated circuit device. A first dielectric layer is deposited on an integrated circuit (IC) structure including conductive contacts, a resistive film (e.g., comprising SiCCr, SiCr, CrSiN, TaN, Ta 2 Si, or TiN) is deposited over the first dielectric layer, the resistive film is etched to define the dimensions of the resistive film, and a second dielectric layer is deposited over the resistive film, such that the resistive film is sandwiched between the first and second dielectric layers. An interconnect trench layer may be deposited over the second dielectric layer and etched, e.g., using a single mask, to define openings that expose surfaces of the IC structure contacts and the resistive film. The openings may be filled with a conductive interconnect material, e.g., copper, to contact the exposed surfaces of the conductive contacts and the resistive film.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the integrated circuit structure includes a memory cell or transistor structure including at least one conductive contact connected to at least one of a source region, a drain region, and a gate region of the memory cell or transistor structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10453701', '12688083', '12862599', '10762962', '15855576']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.922943340625594
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986986188409428
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8805188684471289
- Mean Citation Score: 210.974562
- Max Citation Score: 242.90685
- Similarity Product: 176.23624272201062

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

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