PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "347000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a first fin and a second fin over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode traversing over the first fin and the second fin, respectively. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a gate dielectric layer between the first fin and the first gate electrode and between the second fin and the second gate electrode. Further, the semiconductor device includes a dummy gate electrode over the substrate, and the dummy gate electrode is between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode. An upper portion of the dummy gate electrode is wider than a lower portion of the dummy gate electrode.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n forming a first fin over a substrate; forming a gate electrode layer over the first fin and the substrate; performing a first etching process to remove an upper portion of the gate electrode layer disposed over a top surface of the first fin, the first etching process forming an upper portion of a first gate electrode over the first fin and an upper portion of a dummy gate electrode adjacent to the first fin, the upper portion of the first gate electrode being spaced from the upper portion of the dummy gate electrode by a first distance; and performing a second etching process different from the first etching process to remove a lower portion of the gate electrode layer, the second etching process forming a lower portion of the first gate electrode and a lower portion of the dummy gate electrode, the lower portion of the first gate electrode being spaced from the lower portion of the dummy gate electrode by a second distance larger than the first distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.46341
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14067424', '14579728', '14942580', '15693202', '14599246']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9037332093074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4933638824881937
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8626962766254793
- Mean Citation Score: 227.376134
- Max Citation Score: 247.60686
- Similarity Product: 208.088460880884

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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