PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880156
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method for providing a semiconductor device is described. The method provides a plurality of fins. A first portion of each of the plurality of fins is covered by a mask. A second portion of each of the plurality of fins is exposed by the mask. The method also performs an anneal in a volume-increasing ambient, such as hydrogen, at anneal temperature(s) above one hundred degrees Celsius and not more than six hundred degrees Celsius. The second portion of each of the fins is exposed during the anneal such that the second portion of each of the fins undergoes a volume expansion.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for providing a semiconductor device comprising:\n providing a plurality of fins such that a first portion of each of the plurality of fins is covered by a mask and a second portion of each of the plurality of fins is exposed by the mask, the plurality of fins being Si fins; and performing an anneal in a volume-increasing ambient at at least one anneal temperature above one hundred degrees Celsius and not more than six hundred degrees Celsius, the second portion of each of the plurality of fins being exposed during the anneal such that the second portion of each of the plurality of fins undergoes a volume expansion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05455
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15877931', '15177362', '14974763', '15809122', '15164420']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9062841724055848
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925734446004776
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8649130996250741
- Mean Citation Score: 180.966754
- Max Citation Score: 221.33955
- Similarity Product: 157.3009598927021

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