PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "191000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a gate stack over a semiconductor fin, wherein the semiconductor fin forms a ring, and etching a portion of the semiconductor fin not covered by the gate stack to form a recess. The method further includes performing an epitaxy to grow an epitaxy semiconductor region from the recess, forming a first contact plug overlying and electrically coupled to the epitaxy semiconductor region, and forming a second contact plug, wherein the second contact plug is overlying and electrically coupled to the gate stack.

Claim (Index 8):
A device comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate; a first combined structure comprising:\n a first plurality of semiconductor fins aligned to a first straight line; \n a first plurality of epitaxy semiconductor regions interconnecting neighboring ones of the first plurality of semiconductor fins; and \n a first plurality of gate stacks on sidewalls and top surfaces of the first plurality of semiconductor fins, wherein the first plurality of gate stacks are electrically intercoupled; and \n a second combined structure comprising:\n a second plurality of semiconductor fins aligned to a second straight line, wherein a portion of the semiconductor substrate is between the first combined structure and the second combined structure; \n a second plurality of epitaxy semiconductor regions interconnecting neighboring ones of the second plurality of semiconductor fins; and \n a second plurality of gate stacks on sidewalls and top surfaces of the second plurality of semiconductor fins, wherein the second plurality of gate stacks are electrically intercoupled, and are electrically coupled to the first plurality of gate stacks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13644261', '15368903', '14166510', '14719586', '13415552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.859595535825967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943224442403804
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8230682266674084
- Mean Citation Score: 225.101596
- Max Citation Score: 257.36325
- Similarity Product: 205.7004632090628

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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