PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875422
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A fin-like field-effect transistor (FinFET) device is disclosed. The device includes a semiconductor substrate having a source/drain region, a plurality of isolation regions over the semiconductor substrate and a source/drain feature in the source/drain region. The source/drain feature includes a multiple plug-type portions over the substrate and each of plug-type portion is isolated each other by a respective isolation region. The source/drain feature also includes a single upper portion over the isolation regions. Here the single upper portion is merged from the multiple plug-type portions. The single upper portion has a flat top surface facing away from a top surface of the isolation region.

Claim (Index 15):
A device comprising:\n a fin structure disposed over a substrate; a source/drain feature disposed over the fin structure, the source/drain feature including:\n multiple lower portions that are isolated from each other by a lateral separation; and \n a single upper portion merged from the multiple lower portions, wherein the single upper portion has a top surface facing away from a top surface of the fin structure, wherein the top surface of the single upper portion includes a first flat surface connected to a first multi-facet surface and a second flat surface connected to the first multi-facet surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15207934', '14552904', '14338448', '14675215', '13902322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9157835023424225
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.500292832978174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8742344354059975
- Mean Citation Score: 220.996652
- Max Citation Score: 266.65442
- Similarity Product: 202.99519616215235

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test