PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["438", "667000"]

Abstract:
An integrated circuit product includes a substrate, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) material positioned above the substrate and a through-substrate-via (TSV) extending continuously through the substrate and the ILD material. The TSV includes a substrate portion of the TSV that is positioned in and extends continuously through the substrate and an ILD portion of the TSV that is positioned in and extends continuously through the ILD. An insulating liner layer is selectively positioned between and separates the substrate portion of the TSV and the substrate, wherein the selectively positioned insulating liner layer does not extend from the substrate to the ILD material.

Claim (Index 17):
An integrated circuit product, comprising:\n a substrate; an interlayer dielectric (ILD) material positioned above said substrate; at least one layer of insulating material positioned above said ILD material; a metallization system positioned above said at least one layer of insulating material, said metallization system comprising at least a first metallization layer; at least one transistor device positioned in and above said substrate, wherein said ILD material laterally surrounds said at least one transistor device; at least one device level contact conductively coupled to said at least one transistor device, wherein said at least one device level contact is positioned in and extends continuously through said at least one layer of insulating material; at least one conductive metallization element conductively coupled to said at least one device level contact, wherein said at least one conductive metallization element is positioned in said first metallization layer; a through-substrate-via (TSV) extending continuously through said substrate, said ILD material, said first layer of insulating material and said metallization system, said TSV comprising:\n a first TSV portion positioned in and extending continuously through said substrate, said first TSV portion having first sidewalls; and \n a second TSV portion positioned in and extending continuously through said ILD material, said first layer of insulating material and said metallization system, said second TSV portion having second sidewalls that are laterally offset from said first sidewalls; and \n an insulating liner layer selectively positioned between and separating said first TSV portion and said substrate, wherein said selectively positioned insulating liner layer does not extend from said substrate to said metallization system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15228317', '15728632', '15791711', '15469701', '15373691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8652347988851874
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5364453239291077
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8323558513895795
- Mean Citation Score: 277.24565399999994
- Max Citation Score: 380.2587
- Similarity Product: 294.9869033734381

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

Dataset: test