PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["365", "185250"]

Abstract:
Non-volatile memory strings may include multiple selection devices for coupling memory cell devices to a bit line. Different programming operations may be used to program various individual selection devices in a non-volatile memory cells string. For example, a control circuit may set a threshold voltage of a particular selection device to a value greater than a threshold voltage of another selection device. In another example, the control circuit may program the selection device using an initial sense time. Subsequent to programming the selection device using the initial sense time, the control circuit may program the selection device using a different sense time that is shorter than the initial sense time.

Claim (Index 18):
A method, comprising:\n determining that a NAND string included in a memory array satisfies a program-erase cycle threshold, wherein the NAND string includes a select gate drain device coupled to a bit line associated with the NAND string, and wherein the select gate drain device includes a first selection gate and a second selection gate; and in response to the determining, resetting a sense parameter level of the first selection gate to a value greater than a sense parameter level of the second selection gate; wherein the resetting comprises performing an initial program-and-verify operation which sets the sense parameter of the first selection gate and the sense parameter of the second selection gate, and a subsequent program-and-verify operation which does not set the sense parameter of the first selection gate and sets the sense parameter of the second selection gate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14545
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13084333', '12455337', '15351349', '11303193', '11207427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7952577707228429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4737250501278682
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7631044986633454
- Mean Citation Score: 202.196984
- Max Citation Score: 206.92865
- Similarity Product: 157.37818327025772

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