PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "156000"]

Abstract:
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a separation wall made of a dielectric material is formed between two fin structures. A dummy gate structure is formed over the separation wall and the two fin structures. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over the dummy gate structure. An upper portion of the ILD layer is removed, thereby exposing the dummy gate structure. The dummy gate structure is replaced with a metal gate structure. A planarization operation is performed to expose the separation wall, thereby dividing the metal gate structure into a first gate structure and a second gate structure. The first gate structure and the second gate structure are separated by the separation wall.

Claim (Index 14):
The semiconductor device of  claim 9 , further comprising:\n first sidewall spacers disposed on opposing sides of the first gate electrode; and second sidewall spacers disposed on opposing sides of the second gate electrode, wherein the first sidewall spacers on the first gate structure are separated by the high portion of the dielectric separation wall from the second sidewall spacers on the second gate structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37037
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15481672', '15707682', '15653068', '15725655', '14749602']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8746540922458529
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.496388339232851
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8368275169445527
- Mean Citation Score: 242.198032
- Max Citation Score: 265.2897
- Similarity Product: 213.76176468851563

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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