PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904835
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, first and second fins protruding out of the substrate, and first and second high-k metal gates (HK MG) disposed over the first and second fins, respectively. From a top view, the first and second fins are arranged lengthwise along a first direction, the first and second HK MG are arranged lengthwise along a second direction generally perpendicular to the first direction, and the first and second HK MG are aligned along the second direction. In a cross-sectional view cut along the second direction, the first HK MG has a first sidewall that is slanted from top to bottom towards the second HK MG, and the second HK MG has a second sidewall that is slanted from top to bottom towards the first HK MG. Methods for producing the semiconductor device are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 13):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n a substrate; first and second fins protruding out of the substrate; third and fourth fins protruding out of the substrate; a first high-k metal gate (HK MG) disposed over the first and second fins; and a second HK MG disposed over the third and fourth fins, wherein, from a top view, the first, second, third, and fourth fins are arranged lengthwise along a first direction, the first and second HK MG are aligned lengthwise along a second direction generally perpendicular to the first direction, wherein, in a cross-sectional view cut along the second direction, the first HK MG has a first sidewall, the second HK MG has a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall, the first and second sidewalls form two angles with a normal of the substrate, wherein each of the angles is less than tan \u22121 ( 1 2 \u00d7 AR ) where AK is a ratio or a height of the first HK MG to a distance between the respective top of the first and second sidewalls, and\n wherein space between the first and second sidewalls is completely occupied by one or more dielectric materials.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 49.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76364
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13744932', '15784335', '15827709', '14334842', '14290625']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9101528965482912
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4681760146940992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8659552083628721
- Mean Citation Score: 175.655914
- Max Citation Score: 184.18385
- Similarity Product: 148.43654907084706

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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