PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877395
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure over the substrate, a spacer and a source/drain region. The gate structure is disposed over the substrate. The spacer is disposed on a sidewall of the gate structure, wherein the spacer has a top surface lower than a top surface of the gate structure. The source/drain region is disposed adjacent to a sidewall of the spacer.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein the top portion of the spacer has a first part with a substantially vertical sidewall and a second part with a steep sidewall after performing the second etching process, the second part is disposed between the first part and the bottom portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24324
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15623539', '14985203', '15467643', '14872673', '14858862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.918776232295866
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4811989298632399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8750185020526036
- Mean Citation Score: 177.20046800000003
- Max Citation Score: 182.18095
- Similarity Product: 132.5593291317403

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