PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868229
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Integrated circuit devices include trenches in a material layer that divide the material layer into fins. With such devices, an insulator partially fills the trenches and contacts the material layer. The top surface of the insulator (e.g., the surface opposite where the insulator contacts the material layer) has a convex dome shape between at least two of the fins. The dome shape has a first thickness from (from the bottom of the trench) where the insulator contacts the fins, and a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness where the insulator is between the fins. Further, there is a maximum thickness difference between the first and second thicknesses at the midpoint between the fins (e.g., the highest point of the dome shape is at the midpoint between the fins). Also, the top surface of the first insulator has concave divots where the first insulator contacts the fins.

Claim (Index 11):
The integrated circuit device according to  claim 8 , wherein the top surface of the first insulator has divots where the first insulator contacts the fins.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7377
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15798546', '13231750', '15695229', '14027837', '15632702']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9235310527303644
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.49844738907277
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8810226863646051
- Mean Citation Score: 215.850452
- Max Citation Score: 237.05537
- Similarity Product: 168.70232246852282

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