PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["716", "112000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with the present method and system for improving integrated circuit layout, a local process modification is calculated from simulated process response variables at a set of control points. Said modification values are incorporated into the layout constraints imposed by design rules and design intent to account for manufacturing friendliness. Solving the updated constraint equation with user specified objective function produces a new layout with increased manufacturability. The new layout may further contain data tags that enable optimal process correction to be performed on selected locations, leading to reduction in data size and mask complexity. Also in accordance with this invention, physical design tools are enhanced to read and process anisotropic design rules.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of producing a design layout of an integrated circuit product, comprising:\n defining an original design layout based on original design rules comprising at least global limits on relative distance between layout objects, and a design layout process comprising at least one optimization process on features of the original design layout; generating a modified design layout by an automated design layout system, based at least on the original design layout, the original design rules, and a set of location-specific limits on relative distance between layout objects of the original design layout which are looked up from a predetermined table using patterns of layout objects in the original design layout defined by the design layout process, as look-up keys; and outputting the modified design layout.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4186
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15251961', '13886577', '10907814', '12181460', '13547444']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3617238102900591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875803296495172
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.374309462226005
- Mean Citation Score: 275.16582200000005
- Max Citation Score: 300.41162
- Similarity Product: 255.56962570951703

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

Dataset: test