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 1):
A vertical memory device comprising:\n a substrate; a plurality of gate electrode layers stacked on the substrate; a channel layer penetrating through the plurality of gate electrode layers and having an external diameter; a first epitaxial layer in contact with a lower portion of the channel layer and having a first epitaxial diameter; and a second epitaxial layer disposed between the first epitaxial layer and the substrate and having a second epitaxial diameter, wherein the channel layer covers an entire upper surface of the first epitaxial layer, the second epitaxial diameter is greater than the external diameter of the channel layer, and the external diameter of the channel layer is greater than or equal to the first epitaxial diameter.

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): 0.9233343503928176
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5030277770720095
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.881303693060737
- Mean Citation Score: 229.338574
- Max Citation Score: 243.51588
- Similarity Product: 166.1149832058835

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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