PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135669
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "703000"]

Abstract:
A method for defining a length of a fin including forming a plurality of first slice walls on a mask material layer, which is provided over the fin, using a plurality of hard mask patterns, providing a plurality of fill mask patterns self-aligned with respect to the plurality of first slice walls to expose one or more select areas between one or more pairs of adjacent ones of the plurality of first slice walls, and providing a trim mask pattern including one or more openings and self-aligned with respect to the plurality of second slice walls to expose one or more of the plurality of first slice walls may be provided.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein the providing the plurality of mandrel structures includes:\n providing a mandrel material layer on the first material layer; providing a mandrel mask pattern on the mandrel material layer; patterning the mandrel material layer using the mandrel mask pattern; and removing the mandrel mask pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27451
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261291', '15810454', '15050505', '14856666', '14721430']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8699382952761999
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4987981175171689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8328242775002968
- Mean Citation Score: 206.548656
- Max Citation Score: 210.10962
- Similarity Product: 136.98307106923343

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

Dataset: test