PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16458852
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["716", "052000"]

Abstract:
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method includes defining a via grid, generating a first layout design of the integrated circuit based on at least the via grid or design criteria, generating a standard cell layout design of the integrated circuit, generating a via color layout design of the integrated circuit based on the first layout design and the standard cell layout design, performing a color check on the via color layout design based on design rules, and fabricating the integrated circuit based on at least the via color layout design. The first layout design has a first set of vias arranged in first rows and first columns based on the via grid. The standard cell layout design has standard cells and a second set of vias arranged in the standard cells. The via color layout design has a third set of vias.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 18 , wherein the design criteria comprises\n one or more via spacing rules; a layout requirement of the integrated circuit including at least:\n a first minimum spacing between two vias of the second set of vias in a same row being separated from each other by at least 1minimum pitch (P H ) in the first direction; or \n a second minimum spacing between two vias of the second set of vias in a same column being separated from each other by at least 2 minimum pitches (P V ) in the second direction; \n a place and route requirement of the integrated circuit including minimum spacing requirements between power plan vias and adjacent vias of the sub-sets of vias, the power plan vias and adjacent vias of the sub-sets of vias being the same color; or a mask count corresponding to a number of masks in the multiple mask set.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.48889
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15258932', '15465167', '15966693', '14554958', '14484588']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3571689427876447
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5149756447734315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3729496129862234
- Mean Citation Score: 222.11727
- Max Citation Score: 357.15204
- Similarity Product: 263.9850302827263

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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