PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) fan-out package and related methods of forming same are disclosed. The PIC fan-out package includes: an overmold body; a PIC die in the overmold body, the PIC die including electro-optic circuitry; a plurality of optical fiber stubs operatively coupled to the electro-optic circuitry; an edge fiber coupling interface in a lateral side of the overmold body for coupling the plurality of optical fiber stubs to external optical fibers using a connector; an ancillary device in the overmold body; a redistribution wiring layer (RDL) interposer adjacent the overmold body and electrically connected to the PIC die and the ancillary device; and a ball grid array (BGA) electrically coupled to the PIC die and the ancillary device by the RDL interposer, the BGA configured to electrically couple the PIC die and the ancillary device to a printed circuit board (PCB).

Claim (Index 13):
A method, comprising:\n mounting a plurality of sets of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) die and an ancillary device to a carrier, each PIC die and each ancillary device having electrical connection points on an opposing vertically facing side thereof from the carrier, each PIC die including a plurality of V-groove fiber optic receptacles, at least two of the plurality of V-groove fiber optic receptacles each configured to receive and operatively couple an optical fiber stub to the respective PIC die; individually mounting an optical fiber stub into each of the at least two of the plurality of V-groove receptacles, each optical fiber stub protruding from a lateral side of the respective PIC die; overmolding of the plurality of sets of the PIC die and the ancillary device on the carrier; forming a redistribution layer (RDL) interposer for each PIC die of the plurality of sets, each RDL interposer electrically connected to at least one of the PIC die and the ancillary device; removing the carrier, creating a set of connected modules, each module including a selected PIC die and a selected ancillary device; dicing a selected module from the set of modules; forming an edge fiber coupling interface by exposing a portion of each optical fiber stub on the lateral side of the overmold body of the selected module; and forming a ball grid array (B GA) on the RDL interposer of the selected module, the BGA being electrically connected to the PIC die and the ancillary device by the RDL interposer, the BGA configured to electrically couple the PIC die and the ancillary device to a printed circuit board (PCB).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31429
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14012876', '15882036', '14952482', '14991242', '14718850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8126606164865811
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4776275537367446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7791573102115974
- Mean Citation Score: 195.53991
- Max Citation Score: 202.51639
- Similarity Product: 154.86516370224356

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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