PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16108152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Methods form devices by patterning a lower layer to form a fin, and forming a sacrificial gate along sidewalls of the fin. Such methods form a mask with cut openings on the sacrificial gate and remove sections of the fin and the sacrificial gate exposed through the cut openings to divide the fin into fin portions and create cut areas between the fin portions. Additionally, these methods remove the mask, epitaxially grow source/drains in the cut areas, replace the sacrificial gate with a gate conductor, and form a gate contact on the gate conductor over a center of the fin portions.

Claim (Index 21):
An apparatus comprising:\n a fin extending from a substrate, wherein the fin has fin portions and cut areas, wherein the fin portions are aligned along a fin centerline, wherein the fin portions are separated along the fin centerline by the cut areas, and wherein the fin portions have a horizontal top distal to the substrate and sidewalls positioned relatively vertical to the horizontal top; gate insulators on at least the sidewalls of the fin portions; gate conductors on the gate insulators, wherein the gate conductors are positioned only along the sidewalls of the fin portions between the cut areas, and wherein the gate conductors are insulated from the sidewalls of the fin portions by the gate insulators; a gate contact on the gate conductors, wherein the gate contact is positioned over a center of the fin portions along the horizontal top and extends to the gate conductors; and source/drain structures on the fin in the cut areas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27083
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16032108', '16014076', '15994231', '15593651', '15814724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.544980741685288
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938187796905136
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5398645454858105
- Mean Citation Score: 250.259976
- Max Citation Score: 262.98373
- Similarity Product: 209.31282285973904

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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