PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044227
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "369000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a metal gate structure and related methods that include forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate. In various embodiments, the first fin has a first gate region and the second fin has a second gate region. By way of example, a metal-gate line is formed over the first and second gate regions. In some embodiments, the metal-gate line extends from the first fin to the second fin, and the metal-gate line includes a sacrificial metal portion. In various examples, a line-cut process is performed to separate the metal-gate line into a first metal gate line and a second gate line. In some embodiments, the sacrificial metal portion prevents lateral etching of a dielectric layer during the line-cut process.

Claim (Index 13):
The semiconductor device of  claim 3 , wherein first metal layer is continuous from the first gate region to the first sidewall, and wherein the second metal layer is continuous from the second gate region to the second sidewall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56604
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15649865', '15799555', '14703517', '15471733', '14974589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9234612079389628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5203052479184557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8831456119369122
- Mean Citation Score: 217.64271
- Max Citation Score: 272.33743
- Similarity Product: 151.67803212799782

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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