PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["174", "262000"]

Abstract:
A circuit board assembly of an information handling system has stepped diameter vias that carry communication signals through printed circuit board (PCB) substrates. Each stepped diameter via has a first barrel portion of a first diameter that is drilled through a first portion of the PCB substrates and that is at least lined with a conductive material to electrically conduct a selected one of: (i) a direct current and (ii) a communication signal from an outer layer to an internal layer of the more than one PCB substrate. Each stepped diameter via further includes a second barrel portion that extends from the first barrel portion deeper into the PCB substrates. The second barrel portion has a second diameter that is less than the first diameter and the smaller second diameter improves signal integrity (SI).

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising, from an opposite side of the more than one PCB substrate than the first barrel portion, drilling a third barrel portion aligned with the second barrel portion and having a third diameter greater than the second diameter to provide a drilling aspect ratio required by a thickness of the more than one PCB substrate and the second diameter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15019369', '14603191', '15627018', '15722519', '15231515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8309781437530452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937076792443266
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7972510973021734
- Mean Citation Score: 194.878056
- Max Citation Score: 222.97484
- Similarity Product: 150.74162389626025

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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