PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031698
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "957000"]

Abstract:
An on-chip metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor with enhanced capacitance is provided by forming the MIM capacitor along sidewall surfaces and a bottom surface of each trench of a plurality of trenches formed in a back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) metallization stack to increase a surface area of the MIM capacitor.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , prior to the forming the third dielectric material layer, the method further comprises:\n forming a second capacitor dielectric layer over the second metal portion and exposed portions of the first capacitor dielectric layer; forming a third metal layer over the second capacitor dielectric layer; and patterning the third metal layer to remove the third metal layer completely from an area where the second lower interconnect structure is located, wherein the patterning the third metal layer provides a third metal portion overlying the first lower interconnect structure, wherein the first upper interconnect structure extends through the third metal portion and the second capacitor dielectric layer, and the second upper interconnect structure extends through the second capacitor dielectric layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37838
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15400351', '15450193', '15951208', '15970601', '14957843']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8893964841503563
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5460281666625778
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8550596524015784
- Mean Citation Score: 288.164396
- Max Citation Score: 405.6303
- Similarity Product: 297.80477255809313

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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