PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "347000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a first fin and a second fin over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode traversing over the first fin and the second fin, respectively. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a gate dielectric layer between the first fin and the first gate electrode and between the second fin and the second gate electrode. Further, the semiconductor device includes a dummy gate electrode over the substrate, and the dummy gate electrode is between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode. An upper portion of the dummy gate electrode is wider than a lower portion of the dummy gate electrode.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n forming a first fin and a second fin over a substrate; depositing a gate electrode layer over the first fin, the second fin, and the substrate; and performing an etching process, wherein the etching process partially removes the gate electrode layer to form a first gate electrode over the first fin, a second gate electrode over the second fin, and a dummy gate electrode over the substrate between the first fin and the second fin, wherein a lower portion of the dummy gate electrode is narrower than an upper portion of the dummy gate electrode, wherein a sidewall of a lower portion of the first gate electrode forms a first angle with a major upper surface of the substrate, and a sidewall of the lower portion of the dummy gate electrode forms a second angle with the major upper surface of the substrate, the first angle being larger than the second angle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.46341
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14067424', '14579728', '14942580', '15693202', '14599246']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.903761254091616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930030169096386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8626854303734183
- Mean Citation Score: 227.376134
- Max Citation Score: 247.60686
- Similarity Product: 209.0138642936182

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

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