PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901769
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a semiconductor device may include providing a transistor structure. The transistor structure may include a set of semiconductor fins and a set of gate structures, disposed on the set of semiconductor fins, wherein an isolation layer is disposed between the set of semiconductor fins and between the set of gate structures. The method may include implanting ions into an exposed area of the isolation layer, wherein an altered portion of the isolation layer is formed in the exposed area, wherein an altered region of the set of semiconductor fins is formed in an exposed portion of the set of semiconductor fins. The altered portion of the isolation layer may have a first etch rate, wherein an unaltered portion of the isolation layer, not exposed to the ions, has a second etch rate, greater than the first etch rate.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , further comprising performing an epitaxial growth process on the set of semiconductor fins.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01961
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13306702', '15789217', '15430766', '15878278', '14027837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8631374872741941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4873890226372848
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8255626408105032
- Mean Citation Score: 234.847834
- Max Citation Score: 237.45615
- Similarity Product: 189.2585929386735

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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