PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938812
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "365000"]

Abstract:
Metal gate cutting techniques for fin-like field effect transistors (FinFETs) are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes receiving an integrated circuit (IC) device structure that includes a substrate, one or more fins disposed over the substrate, a plurality of gate structures disposed over the fins, a dielectric layer disposed between and adjacent to the gate structures, and a patterning layer disposed over the gate structures. The gate structures traverses the fins and includes first and second gate structures. The method further includes: forming an opening in the patterning layer to expose a portion of the first gate structure, a portion of the second gate structure, and a portion of the dielectric layer; and removing the exposed portion of the first gate structure, the exposed portion of the second gate structure, and the exposed portion of the dielectric layer.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the dielectric layer is a first dielectric layer, wherein the removing the exposed portion of the first gate structure, the exposed portion of the second gate structure, and the exposed portion of the dielectric layer extends the opening, the method further comprising filling the extended opening with a second dielectric layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51613
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13231750', '15882905', '15592899', '14940841', '14739233']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8939752675534672
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4865013179127204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8532278725893926
- Mean Citation Score: 176.818888
- Max Citation Score: 180.96541
- Similarity Product: 130.48551232559024

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