PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927452
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
A computer system and method are proposed for solving physical problems governed by Poisson or Helmholtz equations. Values of at least one unknown physical quantity at points are determined using known values of at least one second physical quantity. The points are clustered into a hierarchical skeleton structure using a clustering algorithm based on distances between the points. Interactions between distant clusters are approximated, to give a system of equations which can be solved more efficiently.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of fabricating an electronic component, the method comprising:\n (a) forming a numerical model of the electronic component in a three-dimensional space, the numerical model comprising, for each of a plurality of discretization points in the three-dimensional space, a known value of an electrical potential of the electronic component at the discretization point, an unknown electrical charge distribution at the discretization points being related to the electrical potential of the discretization points, by a Poisson equation expressed via an interaction matrix A having elements which correspond to respective pairs of the discretization points, (b) repeatedly applying a clustering algorithm, to classify the discretization points into a hierarchical tree structure having a plurality L+1 of levels, labelled by an integer index I=0, . . . , L, where level l=0 of the tree structure is all the discretization points, level l=1 of the tree structure is composed of non-overlapping clusters of the discretization points, and for l=2, . . . , L, level l of the tree structure is composed of, for each cluster of the (l\u22121)-th level, a respective plurality of non-overlapping clusters of the discretization points of that cluster of the (l\u22121)-th level; (c) using the hierarchical tree structure to form a compressed interaction matrix which is expressed recursively according to the levels; (d) determining the electrical charge distribution of the discretization points from the values of the electrical potential at the boundary points and the compressed interaction matrix; (e) determining whether the determined electrical charge distribution meets a criterion; and (f) depending on the result of the determination of whether the electrical charge distribution meets the criterion, fabricating the electronic component according to the numerical model.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39655
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11731008', '10474508', '15002312', '14691044', '11393875']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5613203471467322
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4775437488817646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5529426873202354
- Mean Citation Score: 152.570298
- Max Citation Score: 156.30545
- Similarity Product: 114.30630544998648

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

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