PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16437781
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "314000"]

Abstract:
An array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells comprises a vertical stack of alternating insulative tiers and wordline tiers. The wordline tiers have terminal ends corresponding to control-gate regions of individual memory cells. The control-gate regions individually comprise part of a wordline in individual of the wordline tiers. A charge-blocking region of the individual memory cells extends elevationally along the individual control-gate regions. Charge-storage material of the individual memory cells extends elevationally along individual of the charge-blocking regions. Channel material extends elevationally along the vertical stack. Insulative charge-passage material is laterally between the channel material and the charge-storage material. Elevationally-extending walls laterally separate immediately-laterally-adjacent of the wordlines. The walls comprise laterally-outer insulative material and silicon-containing material spanning laterally between the laterally-outer insulative material. The silicon-containing material comprises at least 30 atomic percent of at least one of elemental-form silicon or a silicon-containing alloy. Other aspects, including method, are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 23):
An array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells, comprising:\n a vertical stack of alternating insulative tiers and wordline tiers, the wordline tiers having terminal ends corresponding to control-gate regions of individual memory cells, the control-gate regions individually comprising part of a wordline in individual of the wordline tiers; a charge-blocking region of the individual memory cells extending elevationally along the individual control-gate regions; charge-storage material of the individual memory cells extending elevationally along individual of the charge-blocking regions; channel material extending elevationally along the vertical stack; insulative charge-passage material laterally between the channel material and the charge-storage material; and elevationally-extending walls laterally separating immediately-laterally-adjacent of the wordlines, the walls comprising laterally-outer insulative material and silicon-containing material spanning laterally between the laterally-outer insulative material, the silicon-containing material comprising at least 30 atomic percent of at least one of elemental-form silicon or a silicon-containing alloy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23288
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15992959', '16111648', '16111584', '16128109', '15890503']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.928577957133205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.565932275343547
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8923133889542392
- Mean Citation Score: 420.269728
- Max Citation Score: 446.98477
- Similarity Product: 374.5379891934205

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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