PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["716", "053000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments include approaches for modifying a design layer of an integrated circuit (IC). In some cases, an approach includes: identifying at least one empty region in a design layer used to form the IC; determining whether the at least one empty region requires a fill object; placing at least one fill object in the at least one empty region and tagging the at least one fill object in response to determining the at least one empty region requires a fill object; performing a simplified optical proximity correction (OPC) on the tagged at least one fill object and a complete OPC on the design layer; and generating a modified design layer including a corrected version of the design layer and modified fill objects after the performing of the simplified OPC on the tagged at least one fill object and the complete OPC on the design layer.

Claim (Index 7):
A computer-implemented method of modifying a design layer of an integrated circuit (IC), the method comprising:\n identifying at least one empty region in the design layer used to form the IC; determining whether the at least one empty region requires a fill object; identifying a first area of the design layer requiring a nested fill object and a second area of the design layer requiring a non-nested fill object in response to determining the at least one empty region requires the fill object; placing the nested fill object in the first area and the non-nested fill object in the second area; performing a simplified optical proximity correction (OPC) on the non-nested fill object, either no OPC or the simplified OPC on the nested fill object, and a complete OPC on the design layer; and generating a modified design layer including a corrected version of the design layer and modified nested fill objects and non-nested fill objects after the performing of the simplified OPC on the non-nested fill object, the simplified OPC or no OPC on the nested fill object and the complete OPC the design layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59016
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14918057', '14231913', '13353035', '15239072', '13474752']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2852469748176825
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5301267532554104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3097349526614553
- Mean Citation Score: 211.22704600000003
- Max Citation Score: 388.19128
- Similarity Product: 348.39166985287187

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

Dataset: test