PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
A method of rounding corners of a fin includes providing a substrate with a fin protruding from the substrate, wherein a pad oxide and a pad nitride entirely cover a top surface of the fin. Later, part of the pad oxide is removed laterally to expose part of the top surface of the fin. A silicon oxide layer is formed to contact two sidewalls of the fin and the exposed top surface, wherein two sidewalls and the top surface define two corners of the fin. After forming the silicon oxide layer, an annealing process is performed to round two corners of the fin. Finally, after the annealing process, an STI filling material is formed to cover the pad nitride, the pad oxide and the fin.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of rounding corners of a fin of  claim 1 , wherein before the annealing process, each of the corners has a sharp tip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63462
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15613930', '15215034', '12110974', '14793567', '15213524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5792839814127009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4818787641835548
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5695434596897864
- Mean Citation Score: 170.161978
- Max Citation Score: 172.1692
- Similarity Product: 111.47915308437344

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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