PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "004000"]

Abstract:
A sidewall-type memory cell (e.g., a CBRAM, ReRAM, or PCM cell) may include a bottom electrode, a top electrode layer defining a sidewall, and an electrolyte layer arranged between the bottom and top electrode layers, such that a conductive path is defined between the bottom electrode and a the top electrode sidewall via the electrolyte layer, wherein the bottom electrode layer extends generally horizontally with respect to a horizontal substrate, and the top electrode sidewall extends non-horizontally with respect to the horizontal substrate, such that when a positive bias-voltage is applied to the cell, a conductive path grows in a non-vertical direction (e.g., a generally horizontal direction or other non-vertical direction) between the bottom electrode and the top electrode sidewall.

Claim (Index 42):
A method, comprising:\n forming a sidewall-type resistive memory cell, the method comprising:\n forming a bottom electrode over a substrate; \n forming an electrolyte layer over the bottom electrode; and \n forming a top electrode layer including:\n (a) a non-horizontally-extending sidewall region having a non-horizontal surface adjacent the electrolyte layer and facing the bottom electrode, and \n (b) a horizontally-extending upper region extending over the bottom electrode; and \n \n wherein at least a portion of the non-horizontally-extending sidewall region of the top electrode is located laterally outwardly from a lateral edge of the bottom electrode; and \n wherein the respective arrangement of the bottom electrode, electrolyte layer, and top electrode layer define a conductive path between the bottom electrode and the non-horizontally-extending sidewall region of the top electrode layer via the non-horizontally extending sidewall region of the electrolyte layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47273
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14183831', '15262923', '14183738', '14952559', '14183674']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9129208635566928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5385465486542141
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.875483432066445
- Mean Citation Score: 324.795122
- Max Citation Score: 369.9739
- Similarity Product: 331.2793887756169

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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