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 16):
A method comprising:\n forming a first dielectric layer over a substrate; removing a first portion of the first dielectric layer to form a first trench in the first dielectric layer, wherein a sidewall of the first trench is defined by the first dielectric layer; forming a capping layer directly on the sidewall of the first dielectric layer; removing a second portion of the first dielectric layer to form a second trench, wherein the capping layer remains disposed on the sidewall of the first dielectric layer after the removing of the second portion of the first dielectric layer to form the second trench; and forming a conductive feature within the first and second trenches such that the conductive feature covers the capping layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14976751', '15019779', '15670000', '15183452', '14880379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8413939786311956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4972353690877496
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.806978117676851
- Mean Citation Score: 237.94532200000003
- Max Citation Score: 256.6901
- Similarity Product: 215.3921980243504

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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