PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "408000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a pair of source/drain regions disposed in a semiconductor substrate, where the source/drain regions are laterally spaced. A gate electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate between the source/drain regions. Sidewall spacers are disposed over the semiconductor substrate on opposite sides of the gate electrode. A silicide blocking structure is disposed over the sidewalls spacers, where respective sides of the source/drain regions facing the gate electrode are spaced apart from outer sides of the sidewall spacers and are substantially aligned with outer sidewalls of the silicide blocking structure.

Claim (Index 8):
A semiconductor device, comprising:\n a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region disposed in a semiconductor substrate, wherein the first source/drain region is laterally spaced from the second source/drain region; a gate dielectric disposed over the semiconductor substrate and between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region; a gate electrode disposed over the gate dielectric; a first sidewall spacer disposed over the gate dielectric and on a first side of the gate electrode; a first silicide blocking structure disposed over the first sidewall spacer, wherein the first silicide blocking structure extends vertically from the semiconductor substrate along an outer side of the first sidewall spacer, wherein the first silicide blocking structure extends laterally over the semiconductor substrate by a first non-zero distance, and wherein the first silicide blocking structure directly contacts the gate dielectric, the first sidewall spacer, and the gate electrode; and a first silicide structure disposed over the first source/drain region, wherein the first silicide blocking structure separates the first silicide structure from the first sidewall spacer by the first non-zero distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14296496', '12185747', '14276631', '12125864', '10609185']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9007510436006874
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4792193869899211
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8585978779396107
- Mean Citation Score: 209.00402
- Max Citation Score: 218.13185
- Similarity Product: 189.1195823199451

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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