PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135669
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "703000"]

Abstract:
A method for defining a length of a fin including forming a plurality of first slice walls on a mask material layer, which is provided over the fin, using a plurality of hard mask patterns, providing a plurality of fill mask patterns self-aligned with respect to the plurality of first slice walls to expose one or more select areas between one or more pairs of adjacent ones of the plurality of first slice walls, and providing a trim mask pattern including one or more openings and self-aligned with respect to the plurality of second slice walls to expose one or more of the plurality of first slice walls may be provided.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for defining a line pattern to have a length, the method comprising:\n providing a plurality of line patterns on a substrate, the plurality of line patterns horizontally extending in a first direction; providing a mask material layer on the substrate including the plurality of line patterns; forming a plurality of first slice walls using a self-aligned double patterning (SADP), the plurality of first slice walls horizontally extending in a second direction different from the first direction; providing one or more second slice walls between one or more pairs of adjacent ones of the plurality of first slice walls exposed by a plurality of fill mask patterns, a first side of the plurality of fill mask patterns extending along the second direction and aligned to central positions of corresponding ones of the plurality of first slice walls, respectively; removing one or more of the plurality of first slice walls exposed by a trim mask patterns, the trim mask pattern including one or more openings such that a first side of the one or more openings extending along the second direction and aligned to central positions of corresponding ones of the one or more second slice walls, respectively; patterning the mask material layer using remaining ones of the plurality of first slice walls and the one or more second slice walls as a plurality of hard mask patterns; and patterning the plurality of line patterns to have the length using the plurality of hard mask patterns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27451
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261291', '15810454', '15050505', '14856666', '14721430']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8573402522376996
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.484489363947276
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8200551634086573
- Mean Citation Score: 206.548656
- Max Citation Score: 210.10962
- Similarity Product: 157.06708549344418

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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