PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952752
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["365", "185280"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and techniques are described for optimizing a program operation in a memory device. A storage location stores programing data for each word line, such as a program voltage for a set of memory cells. The set of memory cells may be periodically evaluated to determine updated programming setting(s). In one approach, the evaluation involves repeatedly sensing the set of memory cells between a program pulse and a verify signal in a program loop. The word line voltage can be stepped down to an intermediate voltage, then ramped down at a controlled rate while repeatedly sensing the memory cells, such as to detect an upper or lower tail of a threshold voltage distribution. The position of the tail can indicate a degree of over programming and this information can be used to adjust the programming setting(s) in a subsequent program operation.

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus of  claim 8 , further comprising:\n a set of memory cells connected to an unselected word line; and a voltage driver configured to apply a turn on voltage continuously to the unselected word line during the applying of the program voltage, during the ramping down of the voltage of the selected word line and when the verify voltage is applied to the selected word line, the turn on voltage provides the set of memory cells connected to the unselected word line in a conductive state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89157
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14728615', '15694008', '15814769', '15900093', '15208843']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7937286034160033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5156401274422673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7659197558186297
- Mean Citation Score: 308.179744
- Max Citation Score: 319.12842
- Similarity Product: 238.4656178780222

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

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