PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058379
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "506000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a feature of a semiconductor device. In one or more embodiments, the feature is a gate, and the method includes forming a substrate and forming a gate material extending over a major surface of the substrate. The method further includes forming a trench extending through the gate material and into the substrate in a first direction, wherein the trench further extends through the gate material and the substrate in a second direction. The method further includes filling the trench with a fill material and forming individual gates from the gate material, wherein the individual gates extend along a third direction.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of forming a feature of a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n forming a substrate; forming a feature material extending over a major surface of the substrate; forming a first trench having at least one inner first trench sidewall and extending through the feature material and into the substrate in a first direction, wherein the first trench further extends through the feature material and the substrate in a second direction, wherein the first trench further extends through the feature material and the substrate in a third direction; forming a second trench having at least one inner second trench sidewall and extending through the feature material and into the substrate in the first direction, wherein the second trench further extends through the feature material and the substrate in the second direction, wherein the second trench further extends through the feature material and the substrate in the third direction; filling the first trench with a first fill material such that the first fill material extends along and physically couples to at least a portion of the at least one inner first trench sidewall; filling the second trench with a second fill material such that the second fill material extends along and physically couples to at least a portion of the at least one inner second trench sidewall; and forming individual feature structures from the feature material; wherein each of the individual feature structures comprises: a first sidewall having a first height (H) dimension extending along the first direction and a first length (L) dimension extending along the third direction; at least two second sidewalls each formed from a portion of the at least one inner first trench sidewall or a portion of the at least one inner second trench sidewall, each of the at least two second sidewalls having a thickness (T) dimension extending along the second direction and a second H dimension extending along the first direction; and a third sidewall having a third H dimension extending along the first direction and a second L dimension extending along the third direction; wherein T is less than H; wherein the first fill material is physically coupled to one of the at least two second sidewalls of each of the individual feature structures; wherein the second fill material is physically coupled to one of the at least two second sidewalls of each of the individual feature structures.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36735
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15196299', '15474585', '15264688', '15198603', '15267646']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9041072360282966
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.540629321606889
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8677594445861558
- Mean Citation Score: 271.602878
- Max Citation Score: 372.4703
- Similarity Product: 348.0437382489681

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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