PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16422027
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor structure includes an etching stop layer over an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer; a low-k dielectric layer over the etching stop layer; and a tapered conductor extending through the low-k dielectric layer and the etching stop layer and partially through the ILD layer; wherein the tapered conductor includes a recess disposed within the ILD layer and indented towards the etching stop layer and the low-k dielectric layer, and a protrusion surrounding the recess and protruded from the etching stop layer towards the ILD layer.

Claim (Index 5):
The semiconductor structure of  claim 4 , wherein the barrier layer comprises a material selected from a group consisting essentially of tantalum nitride, tantalum, titanium, and titanium nitride.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55556
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: half
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15589424', '14928633', '15912975', '14706311', '11160624']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9287944812702088
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5319902910612325
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8891140622493113
- Mean Citation Score: 247.804358
- Max Citation Score: 354.38232
- Similarity Product: 260.30031666167736

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

Dataset: test