PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "621000"]

Abstract:
A method is provided to supply power to wafer-scale ICs. The method includes receiving a wafer containing ICs placed on the top of the wafer. The wafer has through-silicon vias to provide power from the bottom to the ICs. The method also includes a printed circuit board, which has power rails in a pattern on the top of the printed circuit board, where the rails provide voltage and ground. The method continues with placing metal solder spheres between the bottom of the wafer and the top of the printed circuit board, where the spheres provide connections between the two, and where the spheres are free to move and operate as mechanical springs to resist clamping forces. The method also includes applying clamping pressure to the structure to establish connections by compressing the spheres, where no soldering is required.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the power rails have a predetermined size and pitch and are aligned in a pattern on a top surface of the printed circuit board, and wherein the power rails and the first plurality of electrically conductive solder spheres have the same size and pitch, the power rails including at least one of isolated power lines to provide voltage connections and isolated ground lines to provide ground connections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19118
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15595141', '13623873', '12137242', '14611951', '10870095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.91774261547847
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5591824589803316
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8818865998286561
- Mean Citation Score: 238.945328
- Max Citation Score: 416.2232
- Similarity Product: 369.0184850388527

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