PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976300
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "758000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an integrated circuit (IC) including a first metal layer running in a first direction, a second metal layer running in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second metal layer above the first metal layer and a third metal layer running in the first direction above the second metal layer. A viabar electrically connects the first metal layer to the third metal layer, the viabar running in the first direction wherein the viabar vertically extends from the first metal layer to the third metal layer. A method of manufacturing the IC is provided.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the viabar directly contacts the first metal layer, and wherein the viabar directly contacts the third metal layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78947
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15220764', '13410466', '12186061', '13102218', '15262231']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9202767667658012
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5276911343852032
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8810182035277414
- Mean Citation Score: 216.54749
- Max Citation Score: 338.77832
- Similarity Product: 235.1850518872357

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

Dataset: test