PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875568
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "508000"]

Abstract:
Examples herein describe techniques for isolating portions of an IC that include sensitive components (e.g., inductors or capacitors) from return current in a grounding plane. An output current generated by a transmitter or driver in an IC can generate a magnetic field which induces return current in the grounding plane. If the return current is proximate the sensitive components, the return current can inject noise which can negatively impact other components in the IC. To isolate the sensitive components from the return current, embodiments herein include forming slots through the grounding structure which includes the grounding plane on one or more sides of the sensitive components.

Claim (Index 12):
The integrated circuit of  claim 8 , further comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate, wherein the grounding structure comprises a plurality of metal routing layers disposed on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first slot extends through the plurality of metal routing layers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85484
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13661195', '15197774', '14524663', '12580654', '11115117']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9096750921040636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4742617290063126
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8661337557942886
- Mean Citation Score: 138.5434988
- Max Citation Score: 147.41061000000005
- Similarity Product: 103.31030244600538

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

Dataset: test