PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16223204
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A fin structure for a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device is provided. The device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor material disposed on the substrate, a shallow trench isolation (STI) region disposed over the substrate and formed on opposing sides of the first semiconductor material, and a second semiconductor material forming a first fin and a second fin disposed on the STI region, the first fin spaced apart from the second fin by a width of the first semiconductor material. The fin structure may be used to generate the FinFET device by forming a gate layer formed over the first fin, a top surface of the first semiconductor material disposed between the first and second fins, and the second fin.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device, the method comprising:\n forming a first fin, the first fin having a top surface, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall, the first sidewall facing a first isolation region and the second sidewall facing a second isolation region; forming a mask on the top surface of the first fin; recessing the first isolation region and the second isolation region to expose the first sidewall and the second sidewall; epitaxially growing a second fin on the first sidewall and a third fin on the second sidewall, wherein\n a first sidewall of the second fin contacts the first sidewall of the first fin, \n a second sidewall of the second fin faces away from the first fin, the first sidewall of the second fin and the second sidewall of the second fin being on opposing sides of the second fin, \n a first sidewall of the third fin contacts the second sidewall of the first fin, and \n a second sidewall of the third fin faces away from the first fin, the first sidewall of the third fin and the second sidewall of the third fin being on opposing sides of the second fin; \n recessing the first fin to expose the first sidewall of the second fin and the first sidewall of the third fin; and forming a gate structure along the first sidewall of the second fin and the first sidewall of the third fin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48148
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14604401', '15357839', '13431727', '14657312', '15277777']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9148480804962218
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5102753319051826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8743908056371179
- Mean Citation Score: 240.73353200000005
- Max Citation Score: 297.74936
- Similarity Product: 272.31688375628465

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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