PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868004
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a merged source/drain region is disclosed that includes forming first and second VOCS structures above a semiconductor substrate, forming a recess in the substrate between the first and second VOCS structures and forming a P-type-doped semiconductor material in the recess. In this particular example, the method also includes removing a first substantially horizontally-oriented portion of the P-type-doped semiconductor material from within the recess while leaving a second substantially horizontally-oriented portion of the P-type-doped semiconductor material remaining in the recess and forming a substantially horizontally-oriented N-type-doped semiconductor material in the recess laterally adjacent the second substantially horizontally-oriented portion of the P-type-doped semiconductor material, wherein the substantially horizontally-oriented N-type-doped semiconductor material physically engages the second substantially horizontally-oriented portion of the P-type-doped semiconductor material along an interface within the merged source/drain region.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein removing said first substantially horizontally-oriented portion of said P-type-doped semiconductor material comprises performing an anisotropic etching process, with said patterned etch mask covering said second substantially horizontally-oriented portion of said P-type-doped semiconductor material, to remove said first substantially horizontally-oriented portion of said P-type-doped semiconductor material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70588
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15475946', '13962322', '15436281', '14226488', '15861161']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9264926406454022
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875250858178582
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8825958851626478
- Mean Citation Score: 225.265196
- Max Citation Score: 229.96083
- Similarity Product: 181.6988179530358

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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