PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872361
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "329000"]

Abstract:
Vertical gate all around (VGAA) devices and methods of manufacture thereof are described. A method for manufacturing a VGAA device includes: exposing a top surface and sidewalls of a first portion of a protrusion extending from a doped region, wherein a second portion of the protrusion is surrounded by a gate stack; and enlarging the first portion of the protrusion using an epitaxial growth process.

Claim (Index 9):
The device of  claim 8 , wherein the first epitaxial semiconductor material has the first conductivity and the second epitaxial semiconductor material has the second conductivity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14660542', '14640726', '15443068', '15825533', '15466656']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9012609509932196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5088340075350755
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8620182566474051
- Mean Citation Score: 176.523962
- Max Citation Score: 243.95222
- Similarity Product: 171.91418922894837

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