PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16196074
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["257", "369000"]

Abstract:
Fin-based well straps are disclosed herein for improving performance of memory arrays, such as static random access memory arrays. An exemplary integrated circuit (IC) device includes a FinFET disposed over a doped region of a first type dopant. The FinFET includes a first fin structure doped with a first dopant concentration of the first type dopant and first source/drain features of a second type dopant. The IC device further includes a fin-based well strap disposed over the doped region of the first type dopant. The fin-based well strap connects the doped region to a voltage. The fin-based well strap includes a second fin structure doped with a second dopant concentration of the first type dopant and second source/drain features of the first type dopant. The second dopant concentration is greater than (for example, at least three times greater than) the first dopant concentration.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit device, the method comprising:\n doping a portion of a substrate with a first type dopant to form a first type doped well; doping a first fin of a FinFET with a first dopant concentration of the first type dopant, wherein the first fin is disposed over the first type doped well; doping a second fin of a fin-based well strap with a second dopant concentration of the first type dopant, wherein the second dopant concentration is greater than the first dopant concentration and the second fin is disposed over the first type doped well; doping first source/drain features of the FinFET with a second type dopant; and doping second source/drain features of the fin-based well strap with the first type dopant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55738
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15827443', '11776118', '16035006', '15993855', '15718344']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9237295657273046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5307548512513063
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8844320942797047
- Mean Citation Score: 254.390734
- Max Citation Score: 363.06332
- Similarity Product: 289.30452722604275

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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