PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, at least one first gate structure, at least one first spacer, at least one source drain structure, at least one conductive plug, and at least one protection layer. The first gate structure is present on the substrate. The first spacer is present on at least one sidewall of the first gate structure. The source drain structure is present adjacent to the first spacer. The conductive plug is electrically connected to the source drain structure. The protection layer is present between the conductive plug and the spacer.

Claim (Index 15):
A method comprising:\n forming a first gate structure over a substrate; forming a first spacer on a first sidewall of the first gate structure; forming a source/drain structure over the substrate and adjacent the first spacer; depositing a first dielectric material over the first gate structure and the source/drain structure; removing a first portion of the first dielectric material to expose a sidewall of the first spacer, a second portion of the first dielectric material remaining over the source/drain structure; depositing a second dielectric material along the sidewall of the first spacer and over a topmost surface of the second portion of the first dielectric material, the second dielectric material being different from the first dielectric material; removing a first portion of the second dielectric material to expose the topmost surface of the second portion of the first dielectric material, a second portion of the second dielectric material remaining on the sidewall of the first spacer; patterning the second portion of the first dielectric material using the second portion of the second dielectric material as a mask to expose the source/drain structure; and depositing a conductive material over the source/drain structure and along a sidewall of the second portion of the second dielectric material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.12121
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15048942', '15652176', '16051025', '14987598', '16050747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9134191898566004
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4696343325955663
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8690407041304972
- Mean Citation Score: 187.00892
- Max Citation Score: 190.529
- Similarity Product: 154.19020340871808

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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