PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987764
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["365", "185220"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a programming circuit configured to supply a program pulse to increase a threshold voltage of a memory cell. The apparatus also includes a sensing circuit configured to determine that the threshold voltage of the memory cell satisfies a trigger threshold voltage in response to the program pulse. The apparatus further includes a damping circuit configured to increase a voltage of a bit line connected to the memory cell after initiation of and during a second program pulse in response to the threshold voltage of the memory cell satisfying the trigger threshold voltage, the second program pulse being sent by the programming circuit.

Claim (Index 20):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a memory die comprising a memory cell; means for producing a series of program pulses on a selected word line of a block of the memory die to program the memory cell to a target voltage, wherein a trigger threshold voltage is offset from the target voltage; means for producing a series of elevated pulses to a bit line for the memory cell after a voltage level of the memory cell satisfies the trigger threshold voltage, a period of each elevated pulse increasing as a voltage level of the memory cell approaches the target voltage, each elevated pulse commencing after initiation of and during a coincident program pulse; and means for stepping up a pass pulse on an unselected word line after initiation of and during at least one program pulse after the voltage level of the memory cell satisfies the trigger threshold voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53488
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10839764', '13349130', '11945203', '11856639', '11207427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8021661137695663
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724986474409094
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7691993671367007
- Mean Citation Score: 213.546668
- Max Citation Score: 218.65018
- Similarity Product: 174.7655412723899

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