PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["324", "705000"]

Abstract:
A circuit providing electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and a method and an apparatus for testing ESD protection on an integrated circuit are described. The circuit includes a first ESD protection circuit and a test pad and a second ESD protection circuit and a second pad for the application, not probed during manufacturing of the integrated circuit. In some examples, the method includes providing a first, second, third, and fourth test current to the circuit providing ESD protection, measuring a first second, third, and fourth voltage drop across the circuit, and determining an operating condition for the first ESD protection circuit and the test pad and the second ESD protection circuit and the second bond pad based on expected values of the first voltage drop, the second voltage drop, the third voltage drop, and the fourth voltage drop.

Claim (Index 4):
The circuit of  claim 3 , wherein the differential circuit comprises:\n a differential signal line; a first differential ESD protection circuit on the differential signal line comprising:\n at least one ESD diode connected between the differential signal line and the supply rail; \n at least one ESD diodes connected between the ground rail and the differential signal line; and \n a second differential ESD protection circuit on the differential signal line comprising:\n at least one ESD diode connected between the differential signal line and the supply rail; \n at least one ESD diode connected between the ground rail and the differential signal line; and \n a resistor on the differential signal line between the first differential ESD protection circuit and the second differential ESD protection circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90566
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11648328', '14985462', '12045967', '10818052', '13779464']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.594148099961496
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4973682519214228
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5844701151574887
- Mean Citation Score: 255.69317200000003
- Max Citation Score: 268.25446
- Similarity Product: 190.9084387202787

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

Dataset: test