PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044227
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "369000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a metal gate structure and related methods that include forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate. In various embodiments, the first fin has a first gate region and the second fin has a second gate region. By way of example, a metal-gate line is formed over the first and second gate regions. In some embodiments, the metal-gate line extends from the first fin to the second fin, and the metal-gate line includes a sacrificial metal portion. In various examples, a line-cut process is performed to separate the metal-gate line into a first metal gate line and a second gate line. In some embodiments, the sacrificial metal portion prevents lateral etching of a dielectric layer during the line-cut process.

Claim (Index 16):
The semiconductor device of  claim 15 , wherein the second thickness is less than the first thickness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56604
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15649865', '15799555', '14703517', '15471733', '14974589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9238191847836692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.513888443523816
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8828261106576839
- Mean Citation Score: 217.64271
- Max Citation Score: 272.33743
- Similarity Product: 174.29471762842297

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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