PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16067748
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["438", "007000"]

Abstract:
A method for monitoring and controlling a substrate singulation process is described. Device edges are imaged and identified for analysis. Discrepancies in device edges are noted and used to modify a singulation process and to monitor the operation of singulation processes for anomalous behavior.

Claim (Index 1):
An improved singulation process comprising:\n separating at least a portion of a contiguous substrate into at least a first IC device and a second IC device, the first and the second IC devices having adjoining edges; capturing at least one image of each of the adjoining edges of the first and second IC devices; establishing a profile of each of the adjoining edges of the first and second IC devices; overlaying the profiles of the adjoining edges; identifying discrepant portions of the adjoining edges from the overlaid profiles of the adjoining edges, if any; and, modifying the separating step and/or an apparatus for carrying out the separating step to reduce the likelihood that the separating step will result in a discrepant portion of subsequently formed adjoining edges of at least another first IC device and another second IC device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42424
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11322819', '10725981', '11869709', '10788133', '10991313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8318724086608265
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4648995718349085
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7951751249782346
- Mean Citation Score: 95.779876
- Max Citation Score: 102.39678
- Similarity Product: 70.57921365024805

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

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