PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948651
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "135000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first trench and a second trench in a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate. Each of the first and second trenches includes first sections extending lengthwise in a first direction and a second section extending lengthwise in a second direction transvers to the first direction, the second section of the first trench being disposed opposite to the second section of the second trench. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor mesa separating the first and second trenches, and a source metal layer above the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to source regions in the semiconductor mesa. Corresponding methods of manufacture are also described.

Claim (Index 17):
A transistor device, comprising:\n a first trench and a second trench arranged in a comb-like structure, first sections of the first and second trenches corresponding to teeth of the comb-like structure and second sections of the first and second trenches corresponding to opposing shafts of the comb-like structure, wherein the arrangement of the first trench and the second trench forms a pattern of interdigitated fingers, wherein transistor cells of the transistor device are disposed between single fingers of the first and second trenches, wherein a semiconductor mesa separates the first trench and the second trench from each other, wherein a gate electrode in the first trench or a gate electrode in the second trench is electrically connected to a source potential instead of a gate potential to decrease a gate charge of the transistor device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6087
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15374254', '13754240', '15057704', '15634406', '14734723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.923661921865372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5004712168566038
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8813428513644953
- Mean Citation Score: 265.446836
- Max Citation Score: 290.42194
- Similarity Product: 251.16935040072445

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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