PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "379000"]

Abstract:
A vertical fuse element, including, a conductive silicide base on a surface of a substrate, and a conductive silicide pillar extending in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, where the conductive silicide pillar is on the conductive silicide base, and wherein the conductive silicide pillar includes an upper portion having a width, W 5 , a base having a width, W 6 , and a neck region having a width, W 7 , where W 7 <W 5 , and W 7 ≤W 6 .

Claim (Index 10):
A method of forming an array of vertical fuse elements on a first region of a substrate adjacent to a second region of the substrate having fin field effect transistors, comprising:\n forming a plurality of vertical fins on the substrate; forming a fin cap on each of the plurality of vertical fins, where each of the fin caps covers an upper portion of one of the plurality of vertical fins and leaves a lower portion of the vertical fin exposed; reducing the width of the lower portion of each of the vertical fins to form a neck region between the upper portion and the lower portion of the vertical fin; removing the fin cap from each of the plurality of vertical fins; forming an amalgamation layer on the plurality of vertical fins; and heat treating the amalgamation layer and plurality of vertical fins to form conductive silicide pillars from the plurality of vertical fins, and a conductive silicide base from a surface region of the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.425
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15425589', '15860957', '15336309', '15976226', '15462175']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9183814256121312
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5913715642719268
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8856804394781106
- Mean Citation Score: 317.655012
- Max Citation Score: 518.4886
- Similarity Product: 443.7285253263116

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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