PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860161
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["438", "696000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to cut margin structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming a plurality of patterned hardmask stacks containing at least a semiconductor layer and a capping layer; removing a portion of a first patterned hardmask stack and a margin of an adjacent hardmask stack of the plurality of the patterned hardmask stacks; and selectively growing material on the margin of the adjacent hardmask stack.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein the epitaxial material repairs the adjacent mask to its pattern shape, prior to the etching of the pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90698
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14920179', '14981267', '15602801', '15490181', '15407960']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8473688933521167
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4987133625368792
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.812503340270593
- Mean Citation Score: 206.164696
- Max Citation Score: 217.92734
- Similarity Product: 158.54135216783047

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