PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239165
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["716", "052000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus including a memory storing instructions and a processor executing the instructions to perform a method including: performing error processing of an initial design file layout; detecting a tip-to-tip (T2T) structure design violation at a design cell boundary for a metal layer above (Ma) a via (Vx) at a tip of the Ma for the initial design file layout for a semiconductor structure based on a library of pattern rules; retargeting the Vx for generating a resulting design file layout of the semiconductor structure; and generating a physical semiconductor structure based on the resulting design file layout of the semiconductor structure.

Claim (Index 20):
The system of  claim 18 , wherein:\n upon a determination that the Mb is at the second metal LE, upon a determination that the Ma available space at E_VxMa is greater than the minimum allowable space for the Ma and the Mb available space at E_VxMb is greater than the Mb minimum space, the first processor jogs the design values for the Ma, the second processor jogs the design values for the Mb, and the third processor retargets the design values for the Vx using the retargeting tables and executing the design process or using a third set of predetermined design values, otherwise the first processor inserts a dummy track into the initial design file layout for the semiconductor structure; and upon a determination that the resulting design file layout for the semiconductor structure falls outside of a three sigma area for the Vx, the second processor re-determines whether the Mb is at the second metal LE, otherwise the second processor outputs the resulting design file layout as a final design file layout for the semiconductor structure, wherein the retargeting of the design values for the Vx comprises the third processor retargeting, using the retargeting tables, design values for metal below the Vx in a vertical direction to avoid Vx metal shorting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09259
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15811006', '13760571', '14525833', '14699705', '13628278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3168906075310546
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5514630114813506
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3403478479260842
- Mean Citation Score: 188.9610508
- Max Citation Score: 442.241
- Similarity Product: 410.5555269700288

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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