PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934793
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["438", "283000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a gate stack over a semiconductor fin such that the gate stack exposes the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin exposed by the gate stack is recessed. An epitaxy structure is epitaxially grown on a recessed portion of the semiconductor fin, and the epitaxy structure is etched such that the epitaxy structure has a curved top.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n forming a gate stack over a semiconductor fin such that a portion of the semiconductor fin is uncovered by the gate stack; recessing the portion of the semiconductor fin; epitaxially growing an epitaxy structure on a recessed portion of the semiconductor fin; and etching the epitaxy structure, wherein the etched epitaxy structure has a curved top.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83784
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15381032', '14742552', '14938311', '15702569', '15595454']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8481847233154598
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4636736303867572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8097336140225896
- Mean Citation Score: 160.48009199999996
- Max Citation Score: 195.43773
- Similarity Product: 170.55486778722525

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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