PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878478
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "175000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is an integrated circuit (IC) structure that incorporates a string of vertical devices. Embodiments of the IC structure include a string of two or more vertical diodes. Other embodiments include a vertical diode/silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) string and, more particularly, a diode-triggered silicon-controlled rectifier (VDTSCR). In any case, each embodiment of the IC structure includes an N-well in a substrate and, within that N-well, a P-doped region and an N-doped region that abuts the P-doped region. The P-doped region can be anode of a vertical diode and can be electrically connected to the N-doped region (e.g., by a local interconnect or by contacts and metal wiring) such that the vertical diode is electrically connected to another vertical device (e.g., another vertical diode or a SCR with vertically-oriented features). Also disclosed is a manufacturing method that can be integrated with methods of manufacturing vertical field effect transistors (VFETs).

Claim (Index 7):
The integrated circuit structure of  claim 6 , further comprising non-functional gate structures adjacent the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17722
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15627875', '15873156', '15426739', '15676219', '15087495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9155651067091904
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4985830326696329
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8738668993052346
- Mean Citation Score: 216.986748
- Max Citation Score: 219.8238
- Similarity Product: 142.69356525821686

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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