PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "777000"]

Abstract:
Methods and semiconductor devices for bonding a first semiconductor device to a second semiconductor device include forming metal pads including a textured microstructure having a columnar grain structure at substantially the same angular direction from the top surface to the bottom surface. The textured crystalline microstructures enables the use of low temperatures and low pressures to effect bonding of the metal pads. Also described are methods of packaging and semiconductor devices.

Claim (Index 15):
A semiconductor device comprising:\n at least one metal-to-metal bond between a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device, the first semiconductor device comprising a first metal pad, wherein the first metal pad has a textured microstructure having a columnar grain structure at substantially the same angular direction from the top surface to the bottom surface; and a second semiconductor device including a second metal pad having a textured microstructure having a columnar grain structure at substantially the same angular direction from the top surface to the bottom surface, wherein the at least one metal-to-metal bond consists of the first and second metal pads.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54167
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15251520', '15440892', '15440857', '15440807', '14958302']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9125261117925284
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5499673657537706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8762702371886527
- Mean Citation Score: 248.76571
- Max Citation Score: 415.8181
- Similarity Product: 342.1422378360033

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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