PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16050830
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of semiconductor fins, a gate stack and an epitaxy structure. The semiconductor fins are present on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor fins respectively include recesses therein. The gate stack is present on portions of the semiconductor fins that are adjacent to the recesses. The epitaxy structure is present across the recesses of the semiconductor fins. The epitaxy structure includes a plurality of corners and at least one groove present between the corners, and the groove has a curvature radius greater than that of at least one of the corners.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the shaping is performed at least until the curvature radius of the groove is greater than about 0.5 nm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48837
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15082295', '15381032', '15883179', '15934793', '15596963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9151021741111935
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992533234999196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8735172890500662
- Mean Citation Score: 175.812658
- Max Citation Score: 262.36523
- Similarity Product: 209.1338132812941

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

Dataset: test