PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948554
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a vertical transport field effect transistors with uniform bottom spacer thickness, including, forming a plurality of vertical fins on a substrate, forming a protective liner layer on the plurality of vertical fins, forming a sacrificial liner on the protective liner layer, forming a spacer liner on a portion of the sacrificial liner, wherein at least a top surface of the sacrificial liner on each of the vertical fins is exposed, converting the exposed portion of the sacrificial liner on each of the vertical fins to a conversion cap, and removing the conversion cap from each of the vertical fins to expose an upper portion of each vertical fin.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising removing a portion of the protective liner layer from each of the vertical fins to form a protective liner segment, wherein a bottom spacer is formed by the protective liner segment and the conversion segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57447
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15498112', '15948563', '15492745', '15586830', '15416281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9271261782625648
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.581980453657587
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8926116058020671
- Mean Citation Score: 424.76192
- Max Citation Score: 479.6909
- Similarity Product: 424.74088046803473

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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