PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["365", "185220"]

Abstract:
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors, a word line electrically connected to gates of the memory cell transistors, and a control circuit configured to perform programming of the memory cell transistors to a plurality of different threshold voltage ranges in a plurality of loops, each loop including a program operation and a program verification. The different threshold voltage ranges include a first threshold voltage range and a second threshold voltage range that is at a higher voltage than the first threshold voltage range. Further, during the program operation, the control circuit applies a program voltage to the word line, the program voltage increasing for each subsequent loop, an amount of increase of the program voltage when programming to the second threshold voltage range being set in accordance with a number of loops required to complete programming to the first threshold voltage range.

Claim (Index 27):
A method for programming memory cell transistors of a memory device to a plurality of different threshold voltages in a plurality of loops, each loop including a program operation and a program verification, the method comprising:\n during the program operation, applying a program voltage to a word line that is connected to gates of the memory cell transistors, the program voltage increasing for each subsequent loop, wherein the different threshold voltages include a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage that is at a higher voltage than the first threshold voltage, during the program verification, applying a first verification voltage to the word line when performing verification of the programming to the first threshold voltage and a second verification voltage to the word line when performing verification of the programming to the second threshold voltage, and when a number of loops required to complete a programming to the first threshold voltage is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold number, the second verification voltage is set to be greater than or equal to the second verification voltage that is used when the number of loops required to complete a programming to the first threshold voltage is greater than the predetermined threshold number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47619
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15639411', '15710381', '15919492', '15688846', '15690256']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7891464679347364
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007075593146953
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7603025770727323
- Mean Citation Score: 225.998802
- Max Citation Score: 317.35077
- Similarity Product: 305.21867643850743

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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