PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "618000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The methods may include forming first and second line patterns. The first line pattern has a first side facing the second line pattern, and the second line pattern has a second side facing the first line pattern. The methods may also include forming a first spacer structure on the first side of the first line pattern and a second spacer structure on the second side of the second line pattern. The first and the second spacer structures may define an opening. The methods may further include forming a first conductor in a lower part of the opening, forming an expanded opening by etching upper portions of the first and second spacer structures, and forming a second conductor in the expanded opening. The expanded opening may have a width greater than a width of the lower part of the opening.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein each of the first and second spacer structures comprises a plurality of spacers, and\n wherein, after etching the upper portions of the first and second spacer structures, a distance between a level of the upper surface of the first spacer structure and a level of the upper surface of the first conductor is greater than a thickness of one of the plurality of spacers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.45652
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14734287', '14538832', '14859435', '13761376', '15207554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8689456041492295
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4688289551658391
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8289339392508905
- Mean Citation Score: 186.498928
- Max Citation Score: 193.11026
- Similarity Product: 162.45312039474013

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

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