PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16050669
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "737000"]

Abstract:
A device comprises a first package component, and a first metal trace and a second metal trace on a top surface of the first package component. The device further includes a dielectric mask layer covering the top surface of the first package component, the first metal trace and the second metal trace, wherein the dielectric mask layer has an opening therein exposing the first metal trace. The device also includes a second package component and an interconnect formed on the second package component, the interconnect having a metal bump and a solder bump formed on the metal bump, wherein the solder bump contacts the first metal trace in the opening of the dielectric mask layer.

Claim (Index 17):
A method comprising:\n forming a first metal trace and a second metal trace on a top surface of a first package component, the first metal trace having a first thickness with respect to the top surface of the first package component and the second metal trace having a second thickness with respect to the top surface of the first package component, the first thickness and the second thickness being equal; covering a top surface of the first package component and the second metal trace with a dielectric mask layer; patterning an opening in the dielectric mask layer exposing the first metal trace but not the second metal trace, and the dielectric mask layer has constantly sloped sidewall surfaces defining the opening, the dielectric mask layer being a photodefinable layer, the dielectric mask layer forming a first interface with a side surface of the first metal trace after patterning the opening; and bonding a second package component to the first package component, an interconnect of the second package component comprises a metal bump and a solder bump formed on the metal bump, the solder bump forming a second interface with the side surface of the first metal trace, the side surface of the first metal trace extending continuously from the first interface to the second interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.15385
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13544783', '14072896', '15266724', '14080217', '14954175']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9195039622095504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4895418262938771
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.876507748617983
- Mean Citation Score: 240.30764
- Max Citation Score: 264.43307000000004
- Similarity Product: 232.17903418832367

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

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