PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982912
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
Over-molded IC package assemblies including an embedded voltage reference plane and/or heat spreader. In some embodiments, an over-molded package assembly includes a IC chip or die coupled to one or more metal distribution layer or package substrate. A molding compound encapsulates at least the IC chip and one or more conductive layers are embedded within the molding compound. The conductive layers may include an interior portion located over the IC chip and a peripheral portion located over the redistribution layers or package substrate. The interior portion may comprise one or more heat conductive features, which may physically contact a surface of the IC chip. In some further embodiments, the peripheral portion comprises one or more electrically conductive features, which may physically contact a surface of the package redistribution layers or package substrate to convey a reference voltage. One or more conductive traces may connect the conductive features in the interior with conductive features in the periphery.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of fabricating a microelectronic package assembly, the method comprising:\n molding the IC chip in a package material; patterning first vias or trenches through a peripheral portion of the package material located beyond edges of the IC chip; patterning second vias or trenches through an interior portion of the package material located over the IC chip; filling the first and second vias or trenches with a metal; and forming one or more metal traces over the package material, individual ones of the metal traces coupling one or more of the metal-filled vias or trenches in the peripheral portion of the package material to one or more of the metal-filled vias or trenches in the interior portion of the package material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35211
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14189938', '15590890', '15199434', '15280860', '15182434']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8950603901647002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4803147981871601
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8535858309669462
- Mean Citation Score: 183.29427
- Max Citation Score: 203.30273
- Similarity Product: 166.22579169189453

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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