PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "314000"]

Abstract:
Methods and structures of a three-dimensional memory device are disclosed. In an example, the memory device includes a first alternating conductor/dielectric stack disposed on the substrate and a layer of silicon carbide disposed over the first alternating conductor/dielectric stack. A second alternating conductor/dielectric stack is disposed on the silicon carbide layer. The memory device includes one or more first structures extending orthogonally with respect to the surface of the substrate through the first alternating conductor/dielectric stack and over the epitaxially-grown material disposed in the plurality of recesses, and one or more second structures extending orthogonally with respect to the surface of the substrate through the second alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The one or more second structures are substantially aligned over corresponding ones of the one or more first structures.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for forming a memory device, comprising:\n forming a first layer stack over a substrate, the first layer stack having alternating sacrificial and dielectric layers; forming one or more first openings through the first layer stack, the one or more first openings forming corresponding recesses in the substrate; forming a material in the corresponding recesses; forming one or more first vertical structures in the one or more first openings; forming a silicon carbide layer over the first layer stack; forming a second layer stack over the silicon carbide layer, the second layer stack having alternating sacrificial and dielectric layers; forming one or more second openings through the second layer stack, the one or more second openings being aligned with the one or more first vertical structures; and forming one or more second vertical structures in the one or more second openings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64706
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14808229', '15831481', '15413034', '15286063', '15205628']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9139497239635715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.521613202286627
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8747160717958771
- Mean Citation Score: 304.69823
- Max Citation Score: 310.48764
- Similarity Product: 224.96876352312327

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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