PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860914
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "003000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor process integrates three bridge circuits, each include magnetoresistive sensors coupled as a Wheatstone bridge on a single chip to sense a magnetic field in three orthogonal directions. The process includes various deposition and etch steps forming the magnetoresistive sensors and a plurality of flux guides on one of the three bridge circuits for transferring a “Z” axis magnetic field onto sensors orientated in the XY plane.

Claim (Index 45):
A method of manufacturing an integrated magneto-resistive sensor, the method comprising:\n depositing a first insulating material on or over a substrate; forming a first plurality of flux guides on or in the first insulating material, wherein the flux guides comprise a magnetic material; forming a plurality of magneto-resistive sensor elements on or over the first insulating material, wherein forming the plurality of magneto-resistive sensor elements includes:\n forming a reference layer, \n forming a sensing layer, and \n forming an intermediate layer between the reference layer and the sensing layer; and \n forming conductors to (i) electrically interconnect a first subset of the magneto-resistive sensor elements into a first bridge circuit and (ii) electrically interconnect a second subset of the magneto-resistive sensor elements into a second bridge circuit, wherein each magneto-resistive sensor element of the first subset of the magneto-resistive sensor elements is adjacent to and offset from an associated flux guide of the first plurality of flux guides.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43137
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15388650', '15145515', '15142721', '14954075', '13972637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8905300692103523
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5463607559577465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8561131378850917
- Mean Citation Score: 379.94324
- Max Citation Score: 403.4634
- Similarity Product: 385.3948115204572

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

Dataset: test