PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129741
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: an isolation insulating layer; fin structures protruding from the isolation insulating layer; gate structures, each having a metal gate and a cap insulating layer disposed over the metal gate; a first source/drain epitaxial layer and a second source/drain epitaxial layer disposed between two adjacent gate structures; and a first conductive contact disposed on the first source/drain epitaxial layer, and a second conductive contact disposed on the second source/drain epitaxial layer; a separation isolation region disposed between the first and second conductive contact; and an insulating layer disposed between the separation isolation region and the isolation insulating layer. The separation isolation region is made of a different material than the insulating layer.

Claim (Index 11):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n an isolation insulating layer; a first pair of fin structures and a second pair of fin structures, both protruding from the isolation insulating layer; a first gate structure and a second gate structure, each disposed over the first and second pairs of fin structures and each having a metal gate and a cap insulating layer disposed over the metal gate; a first source/drain epitaxial layer disposed over a region of the first pair of fin structures between the first and second gate structure, and a second source/drain epitaxial layer disposed over a region of the second pair of fin structures between the first and second gate structures; a first conductive contact disposed on the first source/drain epitaxial layer, and a second conductive contact disposed on the second source/drain epitaxial layer; a first separation isolation layer disposed between the first and second conductive contacts; and a first dielectric layer disposed between the first separation isolation layer and the isolation insulating layer and between the first and second source/drain epitaxial layers, wherein the first dielectric layer is made of a different material than the first separation isolation layer and the cap insulating layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.8
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15649909', '15485606', '15707682', '16036888', '15620063']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9216439649958386
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072014510785018
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8801997136041049
- Mean Citation Score: 265.13946
- Max Citation Score: 311.02927
- Similarity Product: 280.4374870790136

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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