PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980480
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["365", "163000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments disclosed herein comprise methods and apparatuses for placing phase-change memory (PCM) cells of a memory array into a temperature regime where nucleation probability of the PCM cells is enhanced prior to applying a subsequent SET programming signal. In one embodiment, the method includes applying a nucleation signal to the PCM cells to form nucleation sites within the memory array where the nucleation signal has a non-zero rising-edge. A programming signal is subsequently applied to achieve a desired level of crystallinity within selected ones of the plurality of PCM cells. Additional methods and apparatuses are also described.

Claim (Index 19):
The apparatus of  claim 17 , wherein the at least one signal generator is further configured to generate at least a portion of the nucleation signal to include a signal portion having a variable non-zero ramp-up time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69355
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15154410', '14328536', '12291111', '13335155', '13156293']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7979327521270744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5087937020628996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7690188471206569
- Mean Citation Score: 198.648294
- Max Citation Score: 291.2784
- Similarity Product: 217.7152397266388

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

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