PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860357
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "254000"]

Abstract:
Representative methods for sealing MEMS devices include depositing insulating material over a substrate, forming conductive vias in a first set of layers of the insulating material, and forming metal structures in a second set of layers of the insulating material. The first and second sets of layers are interleaved in alternation. A dummy insulating layer is provided as an upper-most layer of the first set of layers. Portions of the first and second set of layers are etched to form void regions in the insulating material. A conductive pad is formed on and in a top surface of the insulating material. The void regions are sealed with an encapsulating structure. At least a portion of the encapsulating structure is laterally adjacent the dummy insulating layer, and above a top surface of the conductive pad. An etch is performed to remove at least a portion of the dummy insulating layer.

Claim (Index 12):
A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device, comprising:\n a substrate; an insulating layer over the substrate, the insulating layer comprising a plurality of first layers and a plurality of second layers interleaved with the plurality of first layers, the plurality of first layers having via structures formed therein, the plurality of second layers having metal structures formed therein; a first void region in the insulating layer, the first void region comprising a first set of openings and a second set of openings, the second set of openings being connected to and interleaved with the first set of openings, each of the first set of openings and the second set of openings being in a different layer of the insulating layer; a first sealing structure over at least a portion of the insulating layer, the first sealing structure sealing the first void region to form an encloses space; a first metal membrane in the insulating layer and under the first void region; and a second metal membrane in the insulating layer and above at least a portion of the first void region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38806
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15066799', '15694176', '10170184', '13995924', '14126271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.90273858328072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.496488442317314
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8621135691843793
- Mean Citation Score: 160.510252
- Max Citation Score: 273.58887000000004
- Similarity Product: 234.4562668351686

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

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