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 17):
A method comprising:\n forming a first semiconductor fin extending from a semiconductor substrate; forming a second semiconductor fin extending from the semiconductor substrate, the second semiconductor fin having a first side proximate the first semiconductor fin and a second side distal the first semiconductor fin; growing an epitaxial semiconductor structure extending from the first semiconductor fin to the second semiconductor fin and having a topmost surface, the topmost surface having a first peak above the first semiconductor fin and a second peak above the second semiconductor fin; and shaping the epitaxial semiconductor structure to have a topmost surface with a groove between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin, the groove having a shape, when viewed in cross-section, of a continuous smooth curve from the first peak to the second peak, the epitaxial semiconductor structure having a bottommost surface forming a second groove, the second groove having a shape, when viewed in cross-section, of a continuous smooth curve extending from the first semiconductor fin to the second semiconductor fin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48837
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15082295', '15381032', '15883179', '15934793', '15596963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9056576703110558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4933369760191671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.864425600881867
- Mean Citation Score: 175.812658
- Max Citation Score: 262.36523
- Similarity Product: 220.28993903122188

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

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