PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16388513
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
A method includes forming a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature, forming a metal pad over and electrically connected to the first conductive feature, and forming a passivation layer covering edge portions of the metal pad, with a center portion of a top surface of the metal pad exposed through an opening in the metal pad. A first dielectric layer is formed to cover the metal pad and the passivation layer. A bond pad is formed over the first dielectric layer, and the bond pad is electrically coupled to the second conductive feature. A second dielectric layer is deposited to encircle the bond pad. A planarization is performed to level a top surface of the second dielectric layer with the bond pad. At a time after the planarization is performed, an entirety of the top surface of the metal pad is in contact with dielectric materials.

Claim (Index 16):
A device comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate; integrated circuit devices at a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a metal pad over and electrically coupling to the integrated circuit devices, wherein the metal pad is configured to prohibit currents flowing through; an etch stop layer over the metal pad; a first bond pad overlapping the metal pad, wherein the first bond pad is electrically floating, and entireties of spaces between the first bond pad and the metal pad are free from conductive features therein; a second bond pad configured to allow currents flowing through, wherein both the first bond pad and the second bond pad comprise bottom surfaces contacting the etch stop layer; and a package component bonding to the first bond pad and the second bond pad.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05769
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15894324', '14980044', '13938939', '15886033', '14483171']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9175720576826144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4908503812810272
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8748998900424556
- Mean Citation Score: 184.041938
- Max Citation Score: 210.27286
- Similarity Product: 152.25609502114295

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