PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16108152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Methods form devices by patterning a lower layer to form a fin, and forming a sacrificial gate along sidewalls of the fin. Such methods form a mask with cut openings on the sacrificial gate and remove sections of the fin and the sacrificial gate exposed through the cut openings to divide the fin into fin portions and create cut areas between the fin portions. Additionally, these methods remove the mask, epitaxially grow source/drains in the cut areas, replace the sacrificial gate with a gate conductor, and form a gate contact on the gate conductor over a center of the fin portions.

Claim (Index 8):
An apparatus comprising:\n groups of fin portions of semiconductor material on a lower layer, wherein the groups of fin portions are parallel to one another, wherein fin portions within each of the groups of fin portions are aligned along a fin centerline, wherein the fin portions have a first dimension parallel to the fin centerline and a second dimension perpendicular to the fin centerline, wherein the fin portions are separated from one another along the fin centerline by cut areas; a gate insulator material on the fin portions; a gate conductor material on the gate insulator material, wherein the gate conductor material extends beyond at least one sidewall of the fin portions by an amount equal to the second dimension, and wherein the gate conductor material is positioned only along the sidewalls of the fin portions between the cut areas; a gate contact material on the gate conductor material, wherein the gate contact material is positioned over a center of the fin portions; and source/drain material in the cut areas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27083
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16032108', '16014076', '15994231', '15593651', '15814724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.545872554753711
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4895060833646331
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5402359076148032
- Mean Citation Score: 250.259976
- Max Citation Score: 262.98373
- Similarity Product: 222.7188011934739

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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