PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "204000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a semiconductor device may include providing a semiconductor device structure. The semiconductor device structure may include semiconductor fins pitched at a fin pitch on a substrate and a mask, disposed over the semiconductor fins, the mask defining a plurality of openings. The semiconductor device structure may further include an isolation oxide disposed on the substrate, between the semiconductor fins. The method may further include directing angled ions into the at least one of the plurality of openings. The angled ions may form at least one trench between at least one pair of the semiconductor fins, in the substrate below the isolation oxide between the at least one pair of the semiconductor fins. Furthermore, a width within the substrate of the at least one trench is greater than a minimum fin pitch and greater than a width of the at least one trench above the substrate.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , further comprising lining the pair of trenches with a dielectric liner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01887
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15969419', '15938255', '15928995', '14220299', '15815111']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9245604358033908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5147412194972038
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8835785141727721
- Mean Citation Score: 282.374332
- Max Citation Score: 309.12128
- Similarity Product: 223.4654970430756

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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