PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054206
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["365", "185030"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for nonconsecutive sensing of multilevel memory cells include methods of sensing a unit of information from a multilevel memory cell (MLC) using a sensing signal. The unit of information can correspond to a page of information. The MLC can store a plurality of units of information corresponding to a plurality of pages of information. The sensing signal can change from a first sensing magnitude to a second sensing magnitude and from the second sensing magnitude to a third sensing magnitude. The second sensing magnitude can be nonconsecutive from the first sensing magnitude and/or the third sensing magnitude can be nonconsecutive from the second sensing magnitude with respect to a plurality of sensing magnitudes corresponding to a plurality of charge storage states of the MLC.

Claim (Index 6):
An apparatus, comprising:\n an array of multilevel memory cells (MLCs); a sensing signal generator; and a controller coupled to the array and to the sensing signal generator and configured to perform one of a plurality of sensing operations on the array of MLCs, each sensing operation including a respective different sequence of sensing magnitudes, wherein:\n at least one sequence of the sensing magnitudes includes settling on a first one of the sensing magnitudes prior to settling on a second one of the sensing magnitudes greater than the first one of the sensing magnitudes and a third one of the sensing magnitudes, and \n the third one of the sensing magnitudes is greater than the first one of the sensing magnitudes and less than the second one of the sensing magnitudes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91304
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14122577', '14935744', '13691266', '15231349', '14683292']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8011429149845731
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5318203891720604
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7742106624033219
- Mean Citation Score: 270.589586
- Max Citation Score: 374.96542
- Similarity Product: 287.66575700948835

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

Dataset: test