PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906092
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "383000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods that include for configuring a profile of a liner layer before filling an opening disposed over a semiconductor substrate. The liner layer has a first thickness at the bottom of the opening and a second thickness a top of the opening, the second thickness being smaller that the first thickness. In an embodiment, the filled opening provides a contact structure.

Claim (Index 19):
The semiconductor device of  claim 15 , wherein the liner layer includes TiN.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74359
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13411214', '14447223', '13328875', '15901982', '15366956']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9150306011001216
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4974318751432306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8732707285044324
- Mean Citation Score: 160.94378400000005
- Max Citation Score: 174.22531
- Similarity Product: 105.974023247602

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

Dataset: test