PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16223204
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A fin structure for a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device is provided. The device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor material disposed on the substrate, a shallow trench isolation (STI) region disposed over the substrate and formed on opposing sides of the first semiconductor material, and a second semiconductor material forming a first fin and a second fin disposed on the STI region, the first fin spaced apart from the second fin by a width of the first semiconductor material. The fin structure may be used to generate the FinFET device by forming a gate layer formed over the first fin, a top surface of the first semiconductor material disposed between the first and second fins, and the second fin.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device, the method comprising:\n forming a sacrificial fin on a substrate, the sacrificial fin comprising a first semiconductor material; after forming the sacrificial fin, epitaxially growing a first fin and a second fin along opposing sides of the sacrificial fin, the first fin having a first sidewall facing the first fin and a second sidewall facing away from the first fin, the second fin having a first sidewall facing the first fin and a second sidewall facing away from the first fin; after epitaxially growing the first fin and the second fin, recessing the sacrificial fin to expose the first sidewall and the second sidewall of the first fin and to expose the first sidewall and the second sidewall of the second fin; and after recessing the sacrificial fin, forming a gate structure extending along the first sidewall and the second sidewall of the first fin and along the first sidewall and the second sidewall of the second fin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48148
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14604401', '15357839', '13431727', '14657312', '15277777']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9147294667389916
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127438772091664
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8745309077860092
- Mean Citation Score: 240.73353200000005
- Max Citation Score: 297.74936
- Similarity Product: 259.5534024686766

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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