PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "156000"]

Abstract:
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a separation wall made of a dielectric material is formed between two fin structures. A dummy gate structure is formed over the separation wall and the two fin structures. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over the dummy gate structure. An upper portion of the ILD layer is removed, thereby exposing the dummy gate structure. The dummy gate structure is replaced with a metal gate structure. A planarization operation is performed to expose the separation wall, thereby dividing the metal gate structure into a first gate structure and a second gate structure. The first gate structure and the second gate structure are separated by the separation wall.

Claim (Index 9):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n a first gate electrode disposed over an isolation insulating layer formed on a substrate; a second gate electrode disposed over the isolation insulating layer, the first and second gate electrode extending in and being aligned along a first direction;\n a third gate electrode disposed over the isolation insulating layer, the third gate electrode extending in the first direction and being adjacent to the first and second gate electrode with a space in a second direction crossing the first direction; \n a dielectric separation wall protruding from the isolation insulating layer, wherein:\n the dielectric separation wall is made of a different dielectric material than the isolation insulating layer, \n the dielectric separation wall has a low portion and a first high portion of which height is greater than a height of the low portion, and \n the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are separated by the high portion of the dielectric separation wall and the third gate structure continuously extends over the low portion of the dielectric separation wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37037
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15481672', '15707682', '15653068', '15725655', '14749602']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8747597079511475
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4952184278934831
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8368055799453812
- Mean Citation Score: 242.198032
- Max Citation Score: 265.2897
- Similarity Product: 217.508599418056

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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