PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16460704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "676000"]

Abstract:
According to principles of the disclosure as explained herein, selected leads are electrically connected through metal strips to the lead frame until the end of the manufacturing process. The lead frame is grounded through the manufacturing process to prevent any ESD event from causing damage to the protected leads. In the final singulation step, the leads are electrically isolated from each other and from the lead frame, thus maintaining protection from a potential ESD event up until the final package singulation step.

Claim (Index 9):
A method comprising:\n attaching a semiconductor die to a first side of a first lead frame; testing the first lead frame, the testing including:\n subjecting the first lead frame to at least one electrostatic discharge event during a testing sequence; and \n inspecting a plurality of leads of the first lead frame after each electrostatic discharge event, the inspecting including identifying at least one damaged lead damaged by each electrostatic discharge event of the at least one electrostatic discharge event of the testing sequence; \n forming a plating layer on a second lead frame, forming the plating layer including connecting at least one lead of a plurality of leads of the second lead frame at a location on the second lead frame corresponding to a location of the at least one damaged lead of the first lead frame to a bus line of the second lead frame; grounding the second lead frame, the grounding including grounding the at least one lead of the second lead frame; passing the second lead frame through an electrostatic charge environment; and separating the second lead frame, the separating including electrically isolated the at least one lead of the second lead frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72549
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15636533', '13009362', '14077582', '10915326', '10174603']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9120222182718069
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4929289128293752
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8701128877275637
- Mean Citation Score: 172.389502
- Max Citation Score: 235.25743
- Similarity Product: 176.77618947882888

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