PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859803
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A method includes oxidizing a semiconductor fin to form an oxide layer on opposite sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is over a top surface of an isolation region. After the oxidizing, a tilt implantation is performed to implant an impurity into the semiconductor fin. The oxide layer is removed after the tilt implantation.

Claim (Index 1):
A device comprising:\n an isolation region; a semiconductor strip in the isolation region, wherein the semiconductor strip comprises a first sidewall in a first plane, wherein the first sidewall is substantially straight; a semiconductor fin protruding higher than the isolation region, wherein the semiconductor fin overlaps, and is connected to, the semiconductor strip, and the semiconductor fin comprises a second sidewall in a second plane, wherein the second sidewall is substantially straight, and the second plane is misaligned from the first plane, and wherein the second plane is substantially parallel to the first plane; and a transition semiconductor region comprising a third sidewall smoothly connecting the first sidewall to the second sidewall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74286
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15362234', '14525461', '13541457', '13789812', '12713599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9166516163856356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950042080252405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8744868755495963
- Mean Citation Score: 228.866416
- Max Citation Score: 279.23633
- Similarity Product: 248.5443300395084

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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