PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
Parallel fins are formed (in a first orientation), and source/drain structures are formed in or on the fins, where channel regions of the fins are between the source/drain structures. Parallel gate structures are formed to intersect the fins (in a second orientation perpendicular to the first orientation), source/drain contacts are formed on source/drain structures that are on opposite sides of the gate structures, and caps are formed on the source/drain contacts. After forming the caps, a gate cut structure is formed interrupting the portion of the gate structure that extends between adjacent fins. The upper portion of the gate cut structure includes extensions, where a first extension extends into one of the caps on a first side of the gate cut structure, and a second extension extends into the inter-gate insulator on a second side of the gate cut structure.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n parallel fins extending from a layer in a first orientation; parallel gate structures intersecting the fins in a second orientation perpendicular to the first orientation; parallel source/drain contacts in the second orientation between the gate structures, wherein the source/drain contact are discontinuous and are interrupted by an inter-gate insulator; caps on the source/drain contacts between the gate structures, wherein the source/drain contacts are between the caps and the layer; and a gate cut structure interrupting at least one of the gate structures, wherein the gate cut structure has a lower portion extending to the layer, and an upper portion, such that the lower portion is between the layer and the upper portion, wherein the upper portion of the gate cut structure includes extensions oriented in the first orientation, wherein the extensions have different thicknesses from each other; and wherein the extensions of the upper portion of the gate cut structure extend into at least one of the caps on the source/drain contacts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98077
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16014076', '15936734', '15916323', '15994231', '14755663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9098399655704874
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5153516107965572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8703911300930944
- Mean Citation Score: 278.22676599999994
- Max Citation Score: 308.3197600000001
- Similarity Product: 262.2151829657174

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

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