PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16459181
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "466000"]

Abstract:
Among other things, one or more support structures for integrated circuitry and techniques for forming such support structures are provided. A support structure comprises one or more trench structures, such as a first trench structure and a second trench structure formed around a periphery of integrated circuitry. In some embodiments, one or more trench structures are formed according to partial substrate etching, such that respective trench structures are formed into a region of a substrate. In some embodiments, one or more trench structures are formed according to discontinued substrate etching, such that respective trench structures comprise one or more trench portions separated by separation regions of the substrate. The support structure mitigates stress energy from reaching the integrated circuitry, and facilitates process-induced charge release from the integrated circuitry.

Claim (Index 7):
The semiconductor device of  claim 6 , wherein:\n the first trench structure and the second trench structure are disposed in a second area of the substrate surrounding the first area, the second area of the substrate is disposed between the first area of the substrate and a third area of the substrate surrounding the second area, and the first trench structure and the second trench structure are dimensioned relative to one another such that there is no linear pathway through the substrate from the third area of the substrate to the first area of the substrate that does not pass through at least one of the first trench structure or the second trench structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29508
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583965', '13893652', '14589962', '13757949', '13095019']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9144131840627068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.489333561964106
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8719052218528466
- Mean Citation Score: 160.492148
- Max Citation Score: 207.22212
- Similarity Product: 149.69670567094803

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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