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 1):
A method comprising:\n forming a plating layer on a first portion of a lead frame, forming the plating layer including connecting at least one lead of a plurality of leads of the lead frame to a bus line of the lead frame; removing a second portion of the lead frame, the removing including maintaining the plating layer connecting the least one lead of the lead frame to the bus line; grounding the lead frame, the grounding including grounding the at least one lead; passing the lead frame through an electrostatic charge environment; and separating the lead frame, the separating including removing the bus line of the lead frame to electrically isolate the at least one lead.

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): 0.9114073675916152
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5011593699531812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8703825678277719
- Mean Citation Score: 172.389502
- Max Citation Score: 235.25743
- Similarity Product: 158.53703929502248

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