PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885036
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "192000"]

Abstract:
Examples of an integrated circuit and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, a method includes receiving a substrate that includes: a plurality of fins extending above a remainder of the substrate; a first region that includes a first fence region that contains a first subset of the plurality of fins; and a second region that includes a second fence region that contains a second subset of the plurality of fins. The first region has a first performance characteristic, and the second region has a second performance characteristic that is different from the first. Based on the first performance characteristic, the first subset of the plurality of fins is recessed to a first height, and based on the second performance characteristic, the second subset of the plurality of fins is recessed to a second height that is less than the first height.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein the etching of the substrate forms a second guard ring region in a second region of the workpiece, the method further comprising:\n selectively recessing a second subset of the plurality of fins within a second fence region adjacent the second guard ring region to be below the top surface of the substrate within the second guard ring region, wherein an entirety of the top surface of the substrate within the second fence region is at or above the top surface of the substrate within the second guard ring region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.13725
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15845594', '15592899', '14928704', '15360537', '15640645']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8937358231628899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919922608491693
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8535614669315178
- Mean Citation Score: 173.030916
- Max Citation Score: 182.9514
- Similarity Product: 125.76156356159451

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test