PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a transistor including an epitaxial source, a channel, and an epitaxial drain; a fin that includes the channel, the channel including a long axis and a short axis; a source contact corresponding to the source; and a drain contact corresponding to the drain; wherein (a) an additional axis intersects each of the source contact, the source, the drain, and the drain contact, and (b) the additional axis is parallel to the long axis. Other embodiments are described herein.

Claim (Index 23):
A method comprising:\n forming a gate stack, the gate stack including: (a)(i) a layer comprising a semiconductor material, (a)(ii) a gate dielectric on the layer, (a)(iii) first and second spacers on the layer, and (a)(iv) a gate on the gate dielectric; forming first and second voids within the layer and on opposing sides of the gate stack, a channel region being located within the layer between the first and second voids; using lateral epitaxial growth to form a source region within the first void and a drain region within the second void; forming a source contact corresponding to the source region and a drain contact corresponding to the drain region; wherein (b)(i) the layer is included in a fin, (b)(ii) the channel includes a long axis and a short axis; (b)(iii) an additional axis intersects the source contact, the source, the drain, and the drain contact, (b)(iv) the additional axis is parallel to the long axis, (b)(v) a single plane includes the short axis, the long axis, and the additional axis, and (b)(vi) the short axis intersects the gate at first and second locations and the channel is between the first and second locations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42857
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15705888', '15627109', '15163049', '15163059', '15809122']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9088491887799794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4643703318841305
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8644013030903946
- Mean Citation Score: 160.762666
- Max Citation Score: 162.29657
- Similarity Product: 127.0312959691703

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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