PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017010
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "773000"]

Abstract:
An interposer ( 110 ) has contact pads at the top and/or bottom surfaces for connection to circuit modules (e.g. ICs 112). The interposer includes a substrate made of multiple layers ( 110 .i ). Each layer can be a substrate ( 110 S), possibly a ceramic substrate, with circuitry. The substrates extend vertically. Multiple interposers are fabricated in a single structure ( 310 ) made of vertical layers ( 310 .i ) corresponding to the interposers' layers. The structure is diced along horizontal planes ( 314 ) to provide the interposers. An interposer's vertical conductive lines (similar to through-substrate vias) can be formed on the substrates' surfaces before dicing and before all the substrates are attached to each other. Thus, there is no need to make through-substrate holes for the vertical conductive lines. Non-vertical features can also be formed on the substrates' surfaces before the substrates are attached to each other. Other embodiments are also provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A structure providing interconnection between circuit modules, comprising:\n a top surface and a bottom surface of the structure; vertical layers between the top surface and the bottom surface; contact pads for connection to the circuit modules; one or more first contact pads located at the top surface, and one or more second contact pads located at the bottom surface; interconnection circuitry providing interconnection between at least two of the contact pads; at least one diagonal conductive line deposited or printed on one of the vertical layers, the diagonal conductive line connecting a first contact pad on the top surface with a second contact pad on the bottom surface, the second contact pad on the bottom surface horizontally offset from the first contact pad on the top surface; and the diagonal conductive line providing a shortest linear route between the first contact pad on the top surface and the second contact pad on the bottom surface;

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15403679', '14533728', '14275741', '15181872', '15682049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9182786847574038
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5285519451674775
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8793060107984112
- Mean Citation Score: 268.97668
- Max Citation Score: 358.9007
- Similarity Product: 301.6338750570893

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

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