PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037871
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "618000"]

Abstract:
Otherwise-unused metal pads are utilized for mechanically marking an identification number on each chip in each reticle of each semiconductor wafer. A chip-specific marking pattern is scribed into selected metal pads using a standard commercial wafer probe controlled by a custom-built controller to direct the probe or probe stage to implement the pattern. Visual inspection (manual and automated) may then be used for die identification based on the probe-marked pattern, including incorporating the visual inspection of these pads into the product building process.

Claim (Index 33):
The system according to  claim 32 , wherein the designated metal pads includes a first row of at least eight metal pads, and wherein the controller is capable of adjusting the probe to scribe the selected metal pads resulting in the formation of the binary encoded number designating the chip number, the reticle number, and the wafer number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39062
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14962331', '13050487', '15804165', '13168719', '10365143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9102389129413506
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4698379093559869
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8661988125828143
- Mean Citation Score: 109.550646
- Max Citation Score: 110.60682
- Similarity Product: 75.71604226704241

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

Dataset: test