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 13):
A system comprising:\n a printed circuit board (APCB@) layout specification; a computer comprising a processor; and instructions which are executable, using the processor, to perform functions comprising:\n obtaining search parameters for identifying via placement issues in the PCB layout specification; \n identifying one or more via placement issues in the PCB layout specification, according to the obtained search parameters; \n resolving each of the one or more identified via placement issues, using a resolution selected from a predetermined set of resolutions; and \n revising the PCB layout specification to store an updated PCB layout specification in which the one or more identified via placement issues are resolved; \n wherein identifying one or more via placement issues in the PCB layout specification further comprises, for a particular via, determining that the particular via is partially connected to a voltage shape in the PCB layout specification and is located in a voltage boundary between the voltage shape and another voltage shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60563
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15597496', '15666900', '11696659', '15813233', '15139653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3051671169173492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4437294306463557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3190233482902499
- Mean Citation Score: 113.568706
- Max Citation Score: 118.478645
- Similarity Product: 85.86013626331417

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

Dataset: test