PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductors, and discloses a method for manufacturing semiconductor FinFET devices. The method particularly includes pre-removal of a predetermined thickness of a first region of an isolation region on sides of a fin that is not covered by a pseudo gate such that when a layer of second region of the isolation region covered by the pseudo gate is sacrificially removed during a removal of the pseudo gate, the upper surfaces of the remaining first region and the remaining second region of the isolation region are approximately leveled. By using such a method, DC and AC performances of a resulting FinFET device is improved.

Claim (Index 3):
The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n determining the predetermined removal depth based on computer simulation; or adjusting the predetermined removal depth according to a process feedback.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8871
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15973711', '15723723', '15925364', '15842050', '15918719']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8981630956532022
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5185469265377238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8602014787416544
- Mean Citation Score: 210.891064
- Max Citation Score: 221.89235
- Similarity Product: 120.43448027238846

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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