PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880156
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method for providing a semiconductor device is described. The method provides a plurality of fins. A first portion of each of the plurality of fins is covered by a mask. A second portion of each of the plurality of fins is exposed by the mask. The method also performs an anneal in a volume-increasing ambient, such as hydrogen, at anneal temperature(s) above one hundred degrees Celsius and not more than six hundred degrees Celsius. The second portion of each of the fins is exposed during the anneal such that the second portion of each of the fins undergoes a volume expansion.

Claim (Index 11):
A semiconductor device comprising:\n a plurality of fins, each of the plurality of fins having a channel region and a top source/drain region, at least one of the plurality of fins and the top source/drain region having an expanded area; a plurality of gates covering a portion of the plurality of fins; a plurality of oxide layers residing between the plurality of fins and plurality of gates; and a plurality of source/drain regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05455
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15877931', '15177362', '14974763', '15809122', '15164420']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.906966057597158
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4842075118410791
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8646902030215501
- Mean Citation Score: 180.966754
- Max Citation Score: 221.33955
- Similarity Product: 173.13917932843566

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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