PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936748
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "738000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming bond pads includes providing a substrate including an integrated circuit (IC) device formed thereon having an oxidizable uppermost metal interconnect layer which provides a plurality of bond pads that are coupled to circuit nodes on the IC device. The plurality of bond pads includes a metal bond pad area. A cobalt including connection layer is deposited directly on the metal bond pad area. The cobalt including connection layer is patterned to provide a cobalt bond pad surface for the plurality of bond pads, and a solder material is formed on the cobalt bond pad surface.

Claim (Index 18):
An integrated circuit (IC), comprising:\n a plurality of bond pads coupled to circuit nodes on a substrate, said plurality of bond pads including a metal bond pad area comprising primarily aluminum; a cobalt comprising connection layer directly on said aluminum metal bond pad area, the cobalt comprising connection layer having a cobalt bond pad surface on said plurality of bond pads; and a solder ball directly on the cobalt bond pad surface of the cobalt comprising connection layer to form a three layer stack of the solder ball directly on the cobalt comprising connection layer which is directly on the aluminum of the metal bond pad area, wherein the solder ball comprises Sn and Ag.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14665799', '14278613', '13850144', '11867615', '11884328']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.919983467757838
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5485829503038795
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8828434160124421
- Mean Citation Score: 284.1638220000001
- Max Citation Score: 410.9555
- Similarity Product: 353.55459598094217

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

Dataset: test