PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938496
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "506000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes exemplary configurations and arrangements for various intelligent diodes. The intelligent diodes of the present disclosure can be implemented as part of electrostatic discharge protection circuitry to protect other electronic circuitry from the flow of electricity caused by electrostatic discharge events. The electrostatic discharge protection circuitry dissipates one or more unwanted transient signals which result from the electrostatic discharge event. In some situations, some carrier electrons and or carrier holes can flow from intelligent diodes of the present disclosure into a semiconductor substrate. The exemplary configurations and arrangements described herein include various regions designed collect these carrier electrons and/or carrier holes to reduce the likelihood these carrier electrons and/or carrier holes cause latch-up of the other electronic circuitry.

Claim (Index 1):
A diode, comprising:\n a plurality of diode finger regions, each diode finger region from among the plurality of diode finger regions including:\n a first well region of a first type of material, \n a first finger region of the first type of material situated in the first well re in and \n a second linger region and a third finger region of a second type of material different from the first type of material, the second finger region and the third finger region being situated within the first well region and arranged to be adjacent to the first finger region; and \n a plurality of strap regions interdigitated with the plurality of diode finger regions, each strap region from among the plurality of strap regions including:\n a second well region of the second type of material, \n a plurality of absorption regions of the second type of material situated in the second well region, and \n a plurality of shallow trench isolation (STI) regions interdigitated with the plurality of absorption regions, the plurality of STI regions being situated within the second well region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89552
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14049672', '13193855', '12731562', '15659691', '14684872']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8970725539283761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4820644603361887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8555717445691574
- Mean Citation Score: 123.5819352
- Max Citation Score: 127.7307
- Similarity Product: 81.84552331041098

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

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