PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16221897
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["257", "401000"]

Abstract:
A multiple-fin device includes a substrate and a plurality of fins formed on the substrate. Source and drain regions are formed in the respective fins. A dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. The dielectric layer has a first thickness adjacent one side of a first fin and having a second thickness, different from the first thickness, adjacent an opposite side of the fin. A continuous gate structure is formed overlying the plurality of fins, the continuous gate structure being adjacent a top surface of each fin and at least one sidewall surface of at least one fin. By adjusting the dielectric layer thickness, channel width of the resulting device can be fine-tuned.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate; forming a dielectric layer over the substrate, the dielectric layer comprising a first region in physical contact with a first sidewall of the first fin and a second region in physical contact with a second sidewall of the first fin, the first sidewall of the first fin being opposite the second sidewall of the first fin, a first sidewall of the second fin being in physical contact with the second region; planarizing the dielectric layer to expose a topmost surface of the first fin and a topmost surface of the second fin; performing an etch process on the dielectric layer to expose the second sidewall of the first fin, and the first sidewall and a second sidewall of the second fin, the second sidewall of the second fin being opposite the first sidewall of the second fin, a thickness of the second region being less than a thickness of the first region after performing the etch process; and forming a continuous gate structure over the first fin and the second fin, the continuous gate structure being in physical contact with the topmost surface and the second sidewall of the first fin, the continuous gate structure being further in physical contact with the topmost surface, the first sidewall and the second sidewall of the second fin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15789
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15200770', '15592899', '15074587', '16000689', '15882248']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9124588124646892
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4767478811173367
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8688877193299539
- Mean Citation Score: 186.230278
- Max Citation Score: 197.09415
- Similarity Product: 152.61159393823743

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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