PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "314000"]

Abstract:
A vertical memory device and method of manufacture thereof are provided. The vertical memory device includes gate electrode layers stacked on a substrate; a channel layer penetrating through the gate electrode layers; and a first epitaxial layer in contact with a lower portion of the channel layer and including a region having a diameter smaller than an external diameter of the channel layer.

Claim (Index 2):
The vertical memory device of  claim 1 , further comprising a gate dielectric layer disposed between the channel layer and the plurality of gate electrode layers, and extended below the lower portion of the channel layer,\n wherein the first epitaxial layer penetrates through at least a portion of the gate dielectric layer and has an upper surface protruding beyond the gate dielectric layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59524
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15938101', '15849094', '15688011', '14620770', '15466111']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9237978202319488
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4957665429144066
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8809946925001946
- Mean Citation Score: 229.338574
- Max Citation Score: 243.51588
- Similarity Product: 183.8418169253468

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

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