PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908291
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["716", "055000"]

Abstract:
A method of designing a layout of an integrated circuit (IC) includes placing a first cell in the layout, placing a second cell in the layout adjacent to the first cell at a first boundary between the first and second cells, and generating a plurality of commands executable by a processor to form a semiconductor device based on the layout. The first cell includes a first pattern and a second pattern. The first and second patterns are adjacent to the first boundary, the first and second patterns have different colors, and a first boundary space between the first pattern and the first boundary is different from a second boundary space between the second pattern and the first boundary.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising:\n placing a first cell in a layout adjacent to a first boundary, wherein the first cell comprises a first zone and a plurality of first colorless patterns are disposed in the first zone; placing a second cell in the layout adjacent to the first boundary, wherein the second cell comprises a first pattern having a first color, and the first and second cells are among a plurality of cells that defines an integrated circuit (IC), wherein the first colorless patterns satisfy a first space condition that corresponds to a value of a smallest space between patterns that are adjacent to the first boundary and to which a same color is assigned; assigning a second color to the first colorless patterns; and forming the semiconductor device based on the layout, wherein the semiconductor device is formed using a multi-patterning operation performed on the first pattern having the first color and the first colorless patterns to which the second color is assigned using first and second masks corresponding respectively to the first and second colors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59184
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14868745', '15792902', '15802657', '15351545', '14875910']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3531067467618682
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5229195511511825
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3700880272007997
- Mean Citation Score: 267.533848
- Max Citation Score: 391.34534
- Similarity Product: 336.4418841883624

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

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