PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881128
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "491000"]

Abstract:
A method and a semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes forming an etch mask on top of a surface of an edge region of a semiconductor body, the edge region surrounding an inner region of the semiconductor body, the etch mask having a plurality of openings and at least one bridge between the openings. The method further includes etching the semiconductor body at least in regions uncovered by the plurality of openings to form at least one cavity in the semiconductor body, closing the plurality of openings such that the at least one cavity remains in the semiconductor body, and forming active device regions of a semiconductor device in the inner region.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein etching the semiconductor body comprises an anisotropic etching process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13553152', '10402812', '14953362', '11054451', '12649988']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9200006245084826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948121116788326
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8774817732255177
- Mean Citation Score: 188.079354
- Max Citation Score: 198.00467
- Similarity Product: 130.68522355452058

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

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