PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "125000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments provide semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same. In an exemplary structure, a substrate has a device region, a seal ring region surrounding the device region, and a dielectric layer disposed thereon. A first seal ring structure is located within the dielectric layer on the seal ring region, and includes a plurality of first connection layers overlappingly disposed and separated by the dielectric layer. At least one first connection layer is formed by a plurality of discrete sub-connection layers. The first seal ring structure further includes a plurality of first conductive plugs between vertically adjacent first connection layers. A top of each first conductive plug is connected to an upper first connection layer. A bottom of each first conductive plug between at least two vertically adjacent first connection layers extends into the dielectric layer between horizontally adjacent sub-connection layers of a lower first connection layer.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein a width of each sub-connection layer of the plurality of discrete sub-connection layers ranges from about 0.1 micrometer to about 3 micrometers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30435
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15220679', '14288494', '15180508', '12756982', '13660392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.87817106759324
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5270653739685668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8430604982307728
- Mean Citation Score: 257.384892
- Max Citation Score: 351.29297
- Similarity Product: 318.25966964007137

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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