PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959661
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "077000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a trench extending from a first surface into a SiC semiconductor body. The trench has a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, and a trench bottom. A gate electrode is arranged in the trench and is electrically insulated from the SiC semiconductor body by a trench dielectric. A body region of a first conductivity type adjoins the first sidewall. A shielding structure of the first conductivity type adjoins at least a portion of the second sidewall and the trench bottom. A first section of the trench bottom and a second section of the trench bottom are offset to one another by a vertical offset along a vertical direction extending from the first surface to a second surface of the SiC semiconductor body opposite to the first surface.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 15 , further comprising:\n forming a source region before forming the second trench; lining first and second sidewalls and a bottom of the second trench with a gate dielectric; and forming a gate electrode in the second trench.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80392
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12854974', '15858406', '14744958', '15275184', '15291168']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9222027539579104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017166322885209
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8801541417909714
- Mean Citation Score: 263.961094
- Max Citation Score: 277.98386
- Similarity Product: 217.4344957417536

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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