PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16048304
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["716", "112000"]

Abstract:
Identifying and resolving issues with placement of plated through vias in voltage divider regions of a printed circuit board (“PCB”) layout. Search parameters indicate an area of the PCB layout to be analyzed, and vias meeting the search parameters are evaluated for placement issues. Upon detecting a placement issue for a via, a solution is determined that addresses and resolves the placement issue of the via. The resolution in an embodiment includes modifying an adjacent power shape, modifying a region between shapes, and/or modifying via placement to minimize risks that include potential shorting, partially-connected vias, and/or poor plated barrel adhesion.

Claim (Index 6):
The computer-implemented method according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n resolving the identified via placement issue for the particular via comprises:\n determining whether the voltage boundary can be adjusted without causing any net of the PCB layout to cross the voltage boundary, and if so, then selecting, as the resolution, an adjusting of the voltage boundary to fully connect the particular via to the voltage shape and an adjusting of the voltage shape; and \n revising the PCB layout to store the updated PCB layout comprises storing the adjusted voltage boundary and the adjusted voltage shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60563
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15597496', '15666900', '11696659', '15813233', '15139653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3310562160323668
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4455340633468671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3425040007638168
- Mean Citation Score: 113.568706
- Max Citation Score: 118.478645
- Similarity Product: 86.14345172869027

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

Dataset: test