PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008756
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "344000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a base substrate; forming a gate structure over the base substrate; forming a mask layer on a top surface of the gate structure; forming pocket regions in the base substrate at both sides of the gate structure; after forming the pocket regions, forming a first protective portion covering a top surface of the mask layer and protruding from sidewall surfaces of the gate structure; and after forming the first protective portion, forming doped source/drain regions in the base substrate and portions of the pocket regions at both sides of the gate structure.

Claim (Index 13):
The method according to  claim 9 , after forming the first doped source/drain regions and before forming the second doped source/drain regions, further comprising:\n forming a second capping film on the base substrate, top surface and sidewall surfaces of the gate structures; and removing portions of the second capping film on the base substrate in the second region and on the top and sidewall surfaces of the gate structure in the second region to form a second capping layer, wherein the second capping layer is made of silicon nitride.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39583
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15909419', '15941225', '15971002', '15669322', '15394592']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9133770171262864
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4882936558944832
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.870868681003106
- Mean Citation Score: 201.675008
- Max Citation Score: 206.64642
- Similarity Product: 146.2171433464551

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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