PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866676
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "192000"]

Abstract:
A method of introducing strain in a channel region of a FinFET device includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, the fin structure having a lower portion comprising a sacrificial layer and an upper portion comprising a strained semiconductor layer; and removing a portion of the sacrificial layer corresponding to a channel region of the FinFET device so as to release the upper portion of the fin structure from the substrate in the channel region.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising forming the diffusion barrier layer on the sacrificial layer and epitaxially growing the SiGe layer on the diffusion barrier layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02564
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14953519', '14830789', '15242992', '15343387', '14595316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9341641308956188
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.567498160926276
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8974975338986845
- Mean Citation Score: 381.77324400000015
- Max Citation Score: 524.768
- Similarity Product: 343.4398910064698

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

Dataset: test