PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885036
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "192000"]

Abstract:
Examples of an integrated circuit and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, a method includes receiving a substrate that includes: a plurality of fins extending above a remainder of the substrate; a first region that includes a first fence region that contains a first subset of the plurality of fins; and a second region that includes a second fence region that contains a second subset of the plurality of fins. The first region has a first performance characteristic, and the second region has a second performance characteristic that is different from the first. Based on the first performance characteristic, the first subset of the plurality of fins is recessed to a first height, and based on the second performance characteristic, the second subset of the plurality of fins is recessed to a second height that is less than the first height.

Claim (Index 21):
A method comprising:\n receiving a workpiece that includes a substrate and a mask layer on the substrate; patterning the mask layer; patterning the substrate based on the patterned mask layer to define a plurality of fins; etching a first subset of the plurality of fins to extend to a first height; etching a second subset of the plurality of fins to be below the first height; and forming isolation features on the first and second subsets of the plurality of fins, and wherein the patterning of the substrate defines a guard ring region that is free of fins adjacent the second subset of the plurality of fins, and wherein the etching of the second subset of the plurality of fins creates a recess that extends below a topmost surface of the substrate in the guard ring region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.13725
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15845594', '15592899', '14928704', '15360537', '15640645']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8950898997352693
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4780910516032975
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8533900149220721
- Mean Citation Score: 173.030916
- Max Citation Score: 182.9514
- Similarity Product: 143.10244387500288

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