PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867210
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["257", "192000"]

Abstract:
Confined epitaxial regions for semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating semiconductor devices having confined epitaxial regions are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a plurality of parallel semiconductor fins disposed above and continuous with a semiconductor substrate. An isolation structure is disposed above the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to lower portions of each of the plurality of parallel semiconductor fins. An upper portion of each of the plurality of parallel semiconductor fins protrudes above an uppermost surface of the isolation structure. Epitaxial source and drain regions are disposed in each of the plurality of parallel semiconductor fins adjacent to a channel region in the upper portion of the semiconductor fin. The epitaxial source and drain regions do not extend laterally over the isolation structure. The semiconductor structure also includes one or more gate electrodes, each gate electrode disposed over the channel region of one or more of the plurality of parallel semiconductor fins.

Claim (Index 2):
The integrated circuit structure of  claim 1 , wherein the epitaxial source or drain regions are stress inducing for the channel region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54688
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15119370', '15862930', '15859352', '15122796', '15074587']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9272103100848385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5569710733208392
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8901863864084385
- Mean Citation Score: 280.418568
- Max Citation Score: 432.13727
- Similarity Product: 350.9149772435659

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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