PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
An integrated circuit includes first and second semiconductor fins, first and second epitaxy structures, and first and second dielectric fin sidewall structures. The first and second epitaxy structures are respectively on the first and second semiconductor fins. The first epitaxy structure and the second epitaxy structure are merged together. The first and second dielectric fin sidewall structures are respectively on opposite first and second sidewalls of the first epitaxy structure. The first sidewall of the first epitaxy structure faces the second epitaxy structure. The first dielectric fin sidewall structure is shorter than the second dielectric fin sidewall structure.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit, the method comprising:\n forming first and second semiconductor fins; forming first and second dielectric fin sidewall structures on opposite sidewalls of the first semiconductor fin, wherein the first dielectric fin sidewall structure is higher than the second dielectric fin sidewall structure, and the second dielectric fin sidewall structure is between the first and second semiconductor fins; recessing at least a portion of the first semiconductor fin between the first and second dielectric fin sidewall structures until a top of the recessed portion of the first semiconductor fin is lower than a top of the first dielectric fin sidewall structure; and forming a first epitaxy structure on the recessed portion of the first semiconductor fin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.41935
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15702569', '14938311', '15635337', '15592899', '15492142']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9033258332560477
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798774891151426
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8609809988419571
- Mean Citation Score: 187.993544
- Max Citation Score: 222.90834
- Similarity Product: 185.33609972470524

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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