PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16271522
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "303000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming first and second fins of a finFET extending above a semiconductor substrate, with a shallow trench isolation (STI) region in between, and a distance between a top surface of the STI region and top surfaces of the first and second fins. First and second fin extensions are provided on top and side surfaces of the first and second fins above the top surface of the STI region. Material is removed from the STI region, to increase the distance between the top surface of the STI region and top surfaces of the first and second fins. A conformal stressor dielectric material is deposited over the fins and STI region. The conformal dielectric stressor material is reflowed, to flow into a space between the first and second fins above a top surface of the STI region, to apply stress to a channel of the finFET.

Claim (Index 7):
The semiconductor device of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a gate electrode over the first and second fins.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69492
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15076762', '12725554', '14554179', '12714796', '16163275']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8787589199590369
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5882691920374478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8497099471668781
- Mean Citation Score: 385.805512
- Max Citation Score: 489.6345
- Similarity Product: 365.6215160069168

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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