PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
An interconnect structure is provided that includes an interconnect level that contains an interconnect dielectric material layer having a first electrically conductive via feature, an electrically conductive line feature, and a second electrically conductive via feature embedded in the interconnect dielectric material layer, wherein the first and second via features are self-aligned perpendicularly to, and along the direction of, the electrically conductive line feature.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein the forming of the second electrically conductive via feature comprises providing an electrically conductive metal or metal alloy in the upper portion of the line portion of the combined via/line opening, and patterning the electrically conductive metal or metal alloy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89189
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15849046', '15826393', '15807156', '15225003', '15240700']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9373746617360782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5338567839915751
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8970228739616279
- Mean Citation Score: 329.7397519999999
- Max Citation Score: 369.60925
- Similarity Product: 260.67301312530043

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