PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945552
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "315000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with some examples, a system comprises a substrate layer having an outer surface. The system also comprises a plurality of trenches extending from the outer surface into the substrate layer. The system then comprises a plurality of active regions with each active region positioned between a different pair of consecutive trenches of the plurality of trenches. The system also comprises a dielectric layer disposed in each of the plurality of trenches and on each of the plurality of active regions. The system then comprises a floating gate layer disposed on the dielectric layer and extending at least partially into each of the plurality of trenches.

Claim (Index 7):
A method, comprising:\n obtaining a wafer including a plurality of floating gate layers; measuring thicknesses of the plurality of floating gate layers; calculating a floating gate thickness variation value using the measured floating gate layer thicknesses and a target value; etching, at least in part based on the floating gate thickness variation value, a plurality of shallow trench isolation structures; and increasing, based on the floating gate thickness variation value, an oxide etch time of the wafer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51111
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14871708', '11514743', '14148257', '12648386', '14478211']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.911322218523255
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840312896867109
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8685931256396006
- Mean Citation Score: 185.040764
- Max Citation Score: 194.028
- Similarity Product: 138.67405202150346

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

Dataset: test