PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987101
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A finFET structure includes an insulative cap over each gate in a vicinity of a first and second self-aligned contact (SAC) to source/drain regions thereof. The insulative cap has a bulbous upper insulative cap portion selectively grown to protect gate height loss during SAC opening formation. The bulbous upper insulative cap portion may be over just gates in the vicinity of the S/D regions, and optionally, over gates in the vicinity of a gate contact.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 6 , further comprising, prior to forming the bulbous upper insulative cap portion, masking over the second region such that forming the bulbous upper insulative cap portion on each lower insulative cap portion occurs only in the first region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70833
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638087', '15067540', '15878452', '14021594', '15387933']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9177763533859964
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127975467434567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8772784727217424
- Mean Citation Score: 238.01844
- Max Citation Score: 247.73738
- Similarity Product: 140.18019307611942

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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