PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921624
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A device includes a fin structure, a dielectric layer, a gate a spacer, and an epitaxy structure. The dielectric layer is over the fin structure. The gate is over the dielectric layer. The spacer is on a sidewall of the gate. The spacer has a thickness along a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the fin structure, and a distance along the direction from an outer sidewall of the spacer to an end surface of the fin structure is greater than the thickness of the spacer. The epitaxy structure is in contact with the fin structure.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein etching the dielectric layer and the fin structure is performed such that the dielectric layer and the fin structure are recessed from the outer sidewall of the spacer to form a first recess, and a depth of the first recess is less than a thickness of the spacer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.675
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15592899', '15257568', '15635337', '15859863', '15905905']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9216948011897078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4797884278651446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8775041638572515
- Mean Citation Score: 189.59109
- Max Citation Score: 198.08772
- Similarity Product: 152.74587470761298

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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