PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928909
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
Methods are disclosed herein for fabricating integrated circuit interconnects that can improve electromigration. An exemplary method includes forming a first metal layer of an integrated circuit and forming a second metal layer of the integrated circuit. The first metal layer includes a first conductor electrically coupled to a second conductor, and the second metal layer includes a third conductor electrically coupled to the first conductor. The first conductor, the second conductor, and the third conductor are configured, such that electrons flow from the second conductor to an area of the first conductor where electrons flow from the third conductor to the first conductor.

Claim (Index 16):
A method comprising:\n forming a first wiring layer in a dielectric layer, wherein the first wiring layer includes a first conductor electrically coupled with a second conductor; forming a second wiring layer in the dielectric layer, wherein the second wiring layer includes a third conductor; and forming a via layer in the dielectric layer between the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer, wherein the via layer includes a first via that electrically couples the third conductor to the first conductor and a second via that electrically couples the second conductor with a voltage that is different than a voltage electrically coupled with the first conductor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64286
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15098894', '14941770', '15643032', '12539942', '10787640']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8937499134022154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4941118810441308
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.853786110166407
- Mean Citation Score: 163.606142
- Max Citation Score: 251.24132000000003
- Similarity Product: 203.92335134947305

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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