PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "319000"]

Abstract:
Methods for forming semiconductor structures are disclosed, including a method that involves forming sets of conductive material and insulating material, forming a first mask over the sets, forming a first number of contact regions, forming a second mask over a first region of the sets, and removing material from the sets in a second, exposed region laterally adjacent the first region to form a second number of contact regions. Another method includes forming first and second contact regions on portions of sets of conductive materials and insulating materials, each of the second contact regions more proximal to an underlying substrate than each of the first contact regions. Apparatuses such as memory devices including laterally adjacent first and second regions each of which including contact regions of a different portion of a plurality of conductive materials and related methods of forming such devices are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 8 , further comprising:\n forming a stair-step mask over the stack structure; and removing sections of some of the stacked sets the stack structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54098
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14679488', '13151892', '14015696', '15288522', '15606415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9171060877578656
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5429167030502252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8796871492871017
- Mean Citation Score: 338.6021100000001
- Max Citation Score: 383.56992
- Similarity Product: 295.7828537109375

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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