PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16397303
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "738000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for manufacturing metal contacts under ground-up contact pads within a device. A device may comprise a bottom metal layer with a bottom metal contact, a top metal layer with a top metal contact, and a plurality of middle metal layers. Any given metal layer of the plurality of middle metal layers comprises a metal contact, the metal contact is substantially vertically below the top metal contact, substantially vertically above the bottom metal contact, and substantially vertically above a metal contact in any metal layer that is below the given metal layer. The metal contacts may be of various and different shapes. All the metal contacts in the plurality of middle metal layers and the bottom metal contact may be smaller than the top metal contact, therefore occupying less area and saving more area for other functions such as device routing.

Claim (Index 20):
The device of  claim 15 , further comprising a third metal layer between the contact pad and the second metal layer, wherein the third metal layer comprises a third metal contact, and wherein the third metal contact is in physical contact with the contact pad.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15714124', '13787673', '13693591', '15395991', '12245505']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.903982821646157
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4769579813396035
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8612803376155016
- Mean Citation Score: 154.61504
- Max Citation Score: 204.80563
- Similarity Product: 163.14760007684947

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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