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 11):
The vertical memory device of  claim 1 , wherein a first upper surface of the first epitaxial layer is disposed to be higher than a second upper surface of a lowermost gate electrode layer, among the plurality of gate electrode layers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59524
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15938101', '15849094', '15688011', '14620770', '15466111']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9318323200052973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4967412902329684
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8883232170280644
- Mean Citation Score: 229.338574
- Max Citation Score: 243.51588
- Similarity Product: 187.07173908553364

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

Dataset: test