PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "289000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate stack, a gate spacer, a conductive feature, and a conductive cap. The substrate has a source/drain region. The gate stack is on the substrate. The gate spacer is alongside the gate stack. The conductive feature is on the source/drain region. The conductive cap is on the conductive feature and has a top in a position lower than a top of the gate spacer.

Claim (Index 13):
The semiconductor device of  claim 8 , further comprising:\n a first contact plug forming a first interface with the first gate stack; and a second contact plug forming a second interface with the conductive cap, wherein the first interface is in a position lower than the second interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79412
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15907148', '15609197', '15429894', '16032390', '15605995']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9125700878096784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888725976822066
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8702003387969313
- Mean Citation Score: 197.563936
- Max Citation Score: 246.85643
- Similarity Product: 201.8583059843087

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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