PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859803
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method includes oxidizing a semiconductor fin to form an oxide layer on opposite sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is over a top surface of an isolation region. After the oxidizing, a tilt implantation is performed to implant an impurity into the semiconductor fin. The oxide layer is removed after the tilt implantation.

Claim (Index 18):
The device of  claim 17 , wherein the first tapering rate, the second tapering rate, and the third tapering rate are ratios of reduction in widths to increase in height of respective lower portion, upper portion, and the middle portion, and wherein the first tapering rate is substantially equal to the third tapering rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74286
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15362234', '14525461', '13541457', '13789812', '12713599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9247575509193452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5076222675122636
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8830440225786371
- Mean Citation Score: 228.866416
- Max Citation Score: 279.23633
- Similarity Product: 208.51668281644524

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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