PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method including forming hard mask patterns on a substrate; forming etch stop patterns surrounding the hard mask patterns; forming spacer patterns covering sidewalls of the etch stop patterns; removing the etch stop patterns; etching the substrate to form active and dummy fins; forming a block mask pattern layer surrounding the active and dummy fins and forming mask etch patterns on a top surface of the block mask pattern layer; etching the block mask pattern layer to form block mask patterns surrounding the active fins; etching the dummy fins; removing the block mask patterns surrounding the active fins; and depositing a device isolation film on the substrate such that the device isolation film is not in contact with the upper portions of the active fins, wherein a spacing distance between the active fin and the dummy fin is greater than an active fin spacing distance between the active fins.

Claim (Index 6):
The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein a width of the spacer pattern is greater than a width of the hard mask pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90909
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15099067', '14975932', '14971212', '15613474', '14555775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9300658456139692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5162025995905292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8886795210116254
- Mean Citation Score: 263.08313
- Max Citation Score: 288.02646
- Similarity Product: 186.2012067690253

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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