PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["324", "14000D"]

Abstract:
A microelectronic device has a common terminal transistor with two or more channels, and sense transistors in corresponding areas of the channels. The channels and the sense transistors share a common node in a semiconductor substrate. The sense transistors are configured to provide sense currents that are representative of currents through the corresponding channels. The sense transistors are located so that a ratio of the channel currents to the corresponding sense currents have less than a target value of cross-talk. The microelectronic device may be implemented without a compensation circuit which provides a compensation signal used to adjust one or more of the sense currents to reduce cross-talk. A method of forming the microelectronic device, including estimating a potential distribution in the semiconductor substrate containing the common node of the common terminal transistor, and selecting locations for the sense transistors based on the estimated potential distribution, is disclosed.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of forming a microelectronic device, comprising:\n providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface, the semiconductor substrate including a region for a common terminal transistor, the region including a first region for a first channel of the common terminal transistor, and including a second region for a second channel of the common terminal transistor; estimating a potential distribution in the semiconductor substrate in the region for the common terminal transistor; determining a first sense location in the first region for a first sense transistor, wherein the first sense transistor is configured to provide a first sense current that is representative of a first channel current through the first channel according to a first sense ratio, wherein the first sense ratio has less than a target value of cross-talk with respect to a second channel current through the second channel; determining a second sense location in the second region for a second sense transistor, wherein the second sense transistor is configured to provide a second sense current that is representative of the second channel current according to a second sense ratio, wherein the second sense ratio has less than the target value of cross-talk with respect to the first channel current; forming the first channel in the semiconductor substrate; forming the first sense transistor in the semiconductor substrate at the first sense location; forming the second channel in the semiconductor substrate; and forming the second sense transistor in the semiconductor substrate at the second sense location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13514
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12982641', '10722461', '11586518', '10775469', '11522904']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5030764115114961
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.452791524558735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4980479228162199
- Mean Citation Score: 144.28046999999995
- Max Citation Score: 156.23523
- Similarity Product: 131.69634317329644

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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