PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905429
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "391000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first insulating structure, a second insulating structure, at least one first active semiconductor fin, and at least one second active semiconductor fin. The first insulating structure and the second insulating structure are disposed on the substrate. The first active semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate and has a protruding portion protruding from the first insulating structure. The second active semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate and has a protruding portion protruding from the second insulating structure. The protruding portion of the first active semiconductor fin and the protruding portion of the second active semiconductor fin have different heights.

Claim (Index 16):
A method comprising:\n patterning a semiconductor substrate to include a first plurality of first protruding structures and a second plurality of second protruding structures; depositing an insulator over the first plurality of first protruding structures and the second plurality of second protruding structures, wherein the insulator has a first etch rate when exposed to a first etch process; processing a first region of the insulator to change the first etch rate to a second etch rate, different from the first etch rate, when the first region of the insulator is exposed to the first etch process, the first region being over the first plurality of first protruding structures; processing a second region of the insulator to change the first etch rate to a third etch rate, different from the second etch rate, when the second region of the insulator is exposed to the first etch process, the second region being over the second plurality of second protruding structures; and exposing the insulator to the first etch process to expose a first height of respective one of the first plurality of first protruding structures and to expose a second height of respective ones of the second plurality of second protruding structures, the second height being less than the first height.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.625
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14971907', '15715762', '14984555', '15707682', '12749220']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9089097479117983
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4757796395007488
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8655967370706935
- Mean Citation Score: 186.19079800000003
- Max Citation Score: 222.97307
- Similarity Product: 197.00103549466849

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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