PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944027
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method includes providing a transistor structure, comprising a semiconductor fin and a plurality of gate structures, disposed on the semiconductor fin, forming an insulator layer on the transistor structure, and performing a lithographic process including an overlay shift, comprising defining a set of openings to be formed in the insulator layer. The set of openings define a shift in a first direction with respect to a midpoint between adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. The method includes etching the insulator layer using the plurality of openings, to form a trench region between a pair of adjacent gate structures, wherein a source/drain region between the pair of adjacent gate structures is exposed. The method includes performing an angled deposition of a dielectric coating, wherein the dielectric coating forms a coating on a first side of the trench, and not on a second side of the trench region.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of gate structures comprises a first spacing, and the overlay shift comprises a first shift, wherein the first spacing has a value between 10 nm and 100 nm, and wherein the first shift has a value between 2 nm and 10 nm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54688
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15928995', '15695229', '14874390', '11024935', '15862064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9052715157151552
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009980304845115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.864844167192091
- Mean Citation Score: 185.89797
- Max Citation Score: 189.71965
- Similarity Product: 123.68858556427358

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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