PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16390232
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "299000"]

Abstract:
A vertical FinFET includes a semiconductor fin formed over a semiconductor substrate. A self-aligned first source/drain contact is electrically separated from a second source/drain contact by a sidewall spacer that is formed over an endwall of the fin. The sidewall spacer, which comprises a dielectric material, allows the self-aligned first source/drain contact to be located in close proximity to an endwall of the fin and the associated second source/drain contact without risk of an electrical short between the adjacent contacts.

Claim (Index 8):
The vertical FinFET device of  claim 1 , further comprising a gate metallization layer in electrical contact with the gate stack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15705888', '15830217', '16038265', '15728615', '15860840']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8912106918634013
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5598958396021296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8580792066372741
- Mean Citation Score: 358.95085600000016
- Max Citation Score: 478.235
- Similarity Product: 326.3699918010832

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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