PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988496
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "369000"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an isolation region on a semiconductor substrate. A trench is formed in an <xyz> crystallographic direction of the semiconductor substrate in the isolation region. An epitaxial layer is grown in the trench. The epitaxial layer is patterned to form a semiconductor fin orientated along an <x′y′z′> crystallographic direction of the semiconductor substrate, wherein <x′y′z′>≠<xyz>.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n forming an epitaxial layer over a semiconductor substrate, wherein the epitaxial layer is orientated along <100> crystallographic direction; forming a hard mask over the epitaxial layer, wherein the hard mask is orientated along a <110> crystallographic direction; and patterning the epitaxial layer according to the hard mask to form a semiconductor fin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15408053', '14465365', '15344272', '14470347', '14500304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.909867101655631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4849822700602763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8673786184960957
- Mean Citation Score: 181.34749
- Max Citation Score: 193.9181
- Similarity Product: 137.3762191114485

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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