PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "324000"]

Abstract:
A first memory film and a sacrificial fill structure are formed within each first-tier memory opening through a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first spacer material layers. A second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second spacer material layers is formed over the first alternating stack, and a second-tier memory opening is formed over each sacrificial fill structure. A second memory film is formed in each upper opening, and the sacrificial fill structures are removed from underneath the second-tier memory openings to form memory openings. A semiconductor channel is formed on each vertically neighboring pair of a first memory film and a second memory film as a continuous layer. The first memory film is protected by the sacrificial fill structure during formation of the second-tier memory openings.

Claim (Index 21):
The monolithic three-dimensional memory device of  claim 10 , wherein:\n the first memory film comprises a first tunneling dielectric; the second memory film comprises a second tunneling dielectric; and the second tunneling dielectric is not in direct contact with the first tunneling dielectric.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60377
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15914560', '15071575', '15347101', '15434544', '15335850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.94422657197167
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5412292142784634
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9039268362023491
- Mean Citation Score: 389.59602800000016
- Max Citation Score: 401.63498
- Similarity Product: 278.3038665897941

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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