PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029505
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "334000"]

Abstract:
A III-N enhancement-mode transistor includes a III-N structure including a conductive channel, source and drain contacts, and a gate electrode between the source and drain contacts. An insulator layer is over the III-N structure, with a recess formed through the insulator layer in a gate region of the transistor, with the gate electrode at least partially in the recess. The transistor further includes a field plate having a portion between the gate electrode and the drain contact, the field plate being electrically connected to the source contact. The gate electrode includes an extending portion that is outside the recess and extends towards the drain contact. The separation between the conductive channel and the extending portion of the gate electrode is greater than the separation between the conductive channel and the portion of the field plate that is between the gate electrode and the drain contact.

Claim (Index 13):
A bidirectional switch, comprising:\n a III-N structure including a conductive channel therein; a first source contact and a second source contact, wherein the first source contact and the second source contact electrically contact the conductive channel; a first gate electrode positioned between the first and second source contacts; a second gate electrode positioned between the first gate electrode and the second source contact; an insulator layer over the III-N structure, wherein\n a first recess is formed through the insulator layer in a first gate region between the first source contact and the second source contact, the first recess comprising a first bottom surface, and the first gate electrode is at least partially in the first recess, and \n a second recess is formed through the insulator layer in a second gate region between the first recess and the second source contact, the second recess comprising a second bottom surface, and the second gate electrode is at least partially in the second recess; \n an electrode defining layer having a thickness, the electrode defining layer being over the insulator layer, wherein a third recess comprising a third bottom surface is formed through a first portion of the electrode defining layer between the first source and the second source contacts, and a fourth recess comprising a fourth bottom surface is formed through a second portion of the electrode defining layer between the third recess and the second source contact; a first field plate having a portion that is in the third recess, the first field plate being electrically connected to the first source contact; and a second field plate having a portion that is in the fourth recess, the second field plate being electrically connected to the second source contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 60.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.81818
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15440404', '13799989', '14714964', '14660080', '12368248']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9061626788850222
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5275902433121749
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8683054353277375
- Mean Citation Score: 294.07005
- Max Citation Score: 344.38657
- Similarity Product: 314.4112631322885

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