PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["365", "185030"]

Abstract:
A memory device and associated techniques improve a settling time of bit lines in a memory device during a read or verify operation. Bit line control (BLC) transistors in the sense circuits are briefly turned off during a sensing process. After the read voltage on a selected word line is changed to a second word line level or higher, a control gate voltage of the BLC transistor is lowered. This helps to inhibit a current flow from a sense circuit through a bit line when a voltage of the bit line is settling. The voltage of the bit line may be settling in response to a memory cell coupled to the selected word line undergoing a transition from off to on. A settling time of the bit line is shortened by stopping the current flow from the sense circuit. The transition of the memory cell from off to on is also improved.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a set of memory cells; and a control circuit coupled to the set of memory cells, the control circuit comprising:\n a row decoder circuit configured to apply a read voltage to a selected word line coupled to the set of memory cells; and \n a current sense circuit configured to turn off a bit line control transistor coupling a selected bit line of a memory cell to the current sense circuit in response to the applied read voltage, the turned off bit line control transistor inhibiting a current flow from the current sense circuit through the selected bit line such that a settling of a voltage of the selected bit line is undisturbed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21918
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11136369', '12385198', '12499237', '16018018', '10867679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8074797186092421
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986171499453834
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7765934617428563
- Mean Citation Score: 256.809304
- Max Citation Score: 272.8812
- Similarity Product: 191.53977234377865

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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