PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "156000"]

Abstract:
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a separation wall made of a dielectric material is formed between two fin structures. A dummy gate structure is formed over the separation wall and the two fin structures. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over the dummy gate structure. An upper portion of the ILD layer is removed, thereby exposing the dummy gate structure. The dummy gate structure is replaced with a metal gate structure. A planarization operation is performed to expose the separation wall, thereby dividing the metal gate structure into a first gate structure and a second gate structure. The first gate structure and the second gate structure are separated by the separation wall.

Claim (Index 15):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n a first gate electrode disposed over an isolation insulating layer formed on a substrate; first sidewall spacers disposed on opposing sides of the first gate electrode; a second gate electrode disposed over the isolation insulating layer, the first and second gate electrode extending in and being aligned along a first direction;\n second sidewall spacers disposed on opposing sides of the second gate electrode; and \n a first dielectric separation wall disposed on isolation insulating layer and disposed between and separating the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, wherein:\n the first dielectric separation wall is made of a different dielectric material than the isolation insulating layer, \n the first gate electrode and at least one of the first sidewall spaces are separated by the first dielectric separation wall from the second gate electrode and at least one of the second sidewall spacers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37037
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15481672', '15707682', '15653068', '15725655', '14749602']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8752169626026317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901453272234038
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8367097990647089
- Mean Citation Score: 242.198032
- Max Citation Score: 265.2897
- Similarity Product: 233.7596257653415

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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