PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049884
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A FinFET device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The FinFET device structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate and a gate structure traversing over the fin structure. The gate structure includes a gate electrode layer which includes an upper portion above the fin structure and a lower portion below the fin structure, the virtual surface is formed between the upper portion and the lower portion, and the lower portion has a tapered width which is gradually tapered from the virtual interface to a bottom surface of the lower portion.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the plasma etching process is performed at a pressure in a range from about 10 torr to about 100 torr.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14942580', '14942491', '14632987', '15821970', '15986549']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.911103176174947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5071710390386034
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8707099624613126
- Mean Citation Score: 221.132416
- Max Citation Score: 242.30498
- Similarity Product: 171.53383042452813

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

Dataset: test