PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938695
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "324000"]

Abstract:
A memory device, which can be configured as a 3D NAND flash memory, includes a stack of conductive strips and an opening through the stack exposing sidewalls of conductive strips on first and second sides of the opening. Some of the conductive strips in the stack are configured as word lines. Data storage structures are disposed on the sidewalls of the stack. A vertical channel film is disposed vertically in contact with the data storage structures. The vertical channel film is connected at a proximal end to an upper channel pad over the stack, and at a distal end to a lower channel pad disposed in a lower level of the opening. The upper and lower channel pads may comprise an epitaxial semiconductor and be thicker than the vertical channel film disposed on the sidewalls of the stack.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein forming the upper and lower channel pads comprises:\n depositing a mask on the vertical channel film exposing areas of at least one of the upper and lower channel pads; and depositing a second semiconductor material by selective epitaxial growth in the exposed areas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15344899', '14637204', '14637187', '14863633', '15017487']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9397244306076205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5182691397996456
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.897578901526823
- Mean Citation Score: 315.920258
- Max Citation Score: 324.1598
- Similarity Product: 274.7423452524424

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

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