PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first fin element, a second fin element, and a third fin element. A first source/drain epitaxial feature is disposed over the first and second fin elements. A first portion of the first source/drain epitaxial feature disposed on the first fin element and a second portion of the first source/drain epitaxial feature disposed on the second fin element merge at a merge point. A second source/drain epitaxial feature is disposed over the third fin element. A first sidewall of the second source/drain epitaxial feature interfaces a first third-fin spacer disposed along a first sidewall of the third fin element. A second sidewall of the second source/drain epitaxial feature interfaces a second third-fin spacer disposed along a second sidewall of the third fin element. The merge point has a first height less than a second height of the first third-fin spacer.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the first height is less than about 30% of the second height.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.0
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14997372', '13865478', '14788161', '15809726', '15907427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.915491567161604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5433428619606242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.878276696641506
- Mean Citation Score: 271.918966
- Max Citation Score: 375.5413
- Similarity Product: 234.41287437435383

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

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