PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971646
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["716", "119000"]

Abstract:
A post placement abutment treatment for cell row design is provided. In an embodiment a first cell and a second cell are placed in a first cell row and a third cell and a fourth cell are placed into a second cell row. After placement vias connecting power and ground rails to the underlying structures are analyzed to determine if any can be merged or else removed completely. By merging and removing the closely placed vias, the physical limitations of photolithography may be by-passed, allowing for smaller structures to be formed.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n choosing a first cell and a second cell from a cell library; placing the first cell and the second cell adjacent to each other; placing a first marker layer around a first via within the first cell and a second via in the second cell; determining, based at least in part on the location of the first marker layer, whether to merge the first via and the second via into a third via; and manufacturing the third via with a semiconductor manufacturing processing machine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61667
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14473614', '14965316', '12485253', '15147617', '15214790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2670775591933208
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4697080143390708
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2873406047078958
- Mean Citation Score: 127.7126812
- Max Citation Score: 207.2762
- Similarity Product: 160.9922193475723

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

Dataset: test