PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "638000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a material layer over a substrate and forming a first trench in the material layer, forming a conformal capping layer along sidewalls of the first trench, forming a second trench in the material layer while the capping layer is disposed along sidewalls of the first trench and forming a conductive feature within the first trench and the second trench.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein the first trench is in communication with the second trench.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14976751', '15019779', '15670000', '15183452', '14880379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8552679138019622
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5123214411381378
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8209732665355798
- Mean Citation Score: 237.94532200000003
- Max Citation Score: 256.6901
- Similarity Product: 178.7142299647808

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