PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948651
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "135000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first trench and a second trench in a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate. Each of the first and second trenches includes first sections extending lengthwise in a first direction and a second section extending lengthwise in a second direction transvers to the first direction, the second section of the first trench being disposed opposite to the second section of the second trench. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor mesa separating the first and second trenches, and a source metal layer above the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to source regions in the semiconductor mesa. Corresponding methods of manufacture are also described.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n forming a first trench and a second trench in a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate and separated from each other by a semiconductor mesa, each of the first and second trenches comprising first sections extending lengthwise in a first direction and a second section extending lengthwise in a second direction transvers to the first direction, the second section of the first trench being disposed opposite to the second section of the second trench; forming a source metal layer above the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, the source metal layer being electrically connected to source regions in the semiconductor mesa; and electrically connecting a gate electrode in the first trench or a gate electrode in the second trench to the source metal layer instead of a gate potential.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6087
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15374254', '13754240', '15057704', '15634406', '14734723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9234560201906276
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5047768588041706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8815881040519818
- Mean Citation Score: 265.446836
- Max Citation Score: 290.42194
- Similarity Product: 231.41724291202544

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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