PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16196074
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["257", "369000"]

Abstract:
Fin-based well straps are disclosed herein for improving performance of memory arrays, such as static random access memory arrays. An exemplary integrated circuit (IC) device includes a FinFET disposed over a doped region of a first type dopant. The FinFET includes a first fin structure doped with a first dopant concentration of the first type dopant and first source/drain features of a second type dopant. The IC device further includes a fin-based well strap disposed over the doped region of the first type dopant. The fin-based well strap connects the doped region to a voltage. The fin-based well strap includes a second fin structure doped with a second dopant concentration of the first type dopant and second source/drain features of the first type dopant. The second dopant concentration is greater than (for example, at least three times greater than) the first dopant concentration.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the FinFET is a first FinFET, the doped region is a first doped region, and the fin-based well strap is a first fin-based well strap, and further wherein:\n each of the memory cells further include a second FinFET disposed over a second doped region of the second type dopant, wherein the second FinFET includes a third fin structure doped with a third dopant concentration of the second type dopant and third source/drain features of the first type dopant; and wherein the first well strap cell and the second well strap cell each include a second fin-based well strap disposed over the second doped region, wherein the second fin-based well strap includes a fourth fin structure doped with a fourth dopant concentration of the second type dopant and fourth source/drain features of the second type dopant, wherein the fourth dopant concentration is greater than the third dopant concentration, and further wherein the second fin-based well strap connects the second doped region to a second voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55738
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15827443', '11776118', '16035006', '15993855', '15718344']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9316559714944372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5329064571206625
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8917810200570596
- Mean Citation Score: 254.390734
- Max Citation Score: 363.06332
- Similarity Product: 296.56621950636384

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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