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 18):
The semiconductor device of  claim 15 , further comprising:\n a third gate electrode disposed over the isolation insulating layer; third sidewall spacers disposed on opposing sides of the third gate electrode; a fourth gate electrode disposed over the isolation insulating layer, the third and fourth gate electrode extending in and being aligned along the first direction; a second dielectric separation wall disposed on isolation insulating layer and disposed between and separating the third gate electrode and the fourth gate electrode, wherein:\n the second dielectric separation wall is made of a same material as the first dielectric separation wall, and \n a width of the first dielectric separation wall in the first direction is different from a width of the second dielectric separation wall in the first direction.

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): 0.8739100084793279
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5046070760799463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8369797152393897
- Mean Citation Score: 242.198032
- Max Citation Score: 265.2897
- Similarity Product: 187.4394577167034

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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