PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
FinFET devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. One of the FinFET devices includes first fins, second fins, a first gate strip, a second gate strip and a comb-like insulating structure. The first and second fins are disposed on a substrate. The first gate strip is disposed across the first fins. The second gate strip is disposed across the second fins. The comb-like insulating structure is disposed between the first gate strip and the second gate strip and has a plurality of comb tooth parts. In some embodiments, each of the comb tooth parts has a middle-wide profile.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of forming a FinFET device, comprising:\n providing a substrate having a plurality of fins thereon, an isolation layer thereon covering lower portions of the fins, a plurality of dummy strips across the fins, and a dielectric layer aside the dummy strips; cutting the dummy strips to form a trench in the dielectric layer; forming a first insulating structure in the trench, wherein first and second groups of the dummy strips are beside the first insulating structure; removing a dummy strip from the first group of the dummy strips to form a first opening that exposes portions of the fins under the dummy strip; removing the portions of the fins to form a plurality of second openings below the first opening, wherein each of the second openings has a middle-wide profile; and forming a second insulating structure in the first and second openings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70732
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15062219', '13946660', '15665968', '14941663', '14953427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9081461775900772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.46297645640309
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8636292054713784
- Mean Citation Score: 156.767746
- Max Citation Score: 165.05637
- Similarity Product: 131.6714164163053

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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