PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983077
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "288000"]

Abstract:
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate; forming a gate structure on the substrate; forming a spacer adjacent to the gate structure; forming a recess adjacent to the spacer; forming a buffer layer in the recess, wherein the buffer layer comprises a crescent moon shape; and forming an epitaxial layer on the buffer layer.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein the buffer layer comprises a vertical thickness directly under a valley point of the curve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15259060', '15890320', '15170954', '15144842', '15339942']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.917128349853516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4567288370243296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8710883985705975
- Mean Citation Score: 153.63506
- Max Citation Score: 175.5065
- Similarity Product: 154.21681150448322

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

Dataset: test