PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002793
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["365", "185020"]

Abstract:
Program disturb is a condition that includes the unintended programming of a memory cell while performing a programming process for other memory cells. Such unintended programming can cause an error in the data being stored. In some cases, program disturb can result from electrons trapped in the channel being accelerated from one side of a selected word line to another side of the selected word line and redirected into the selected word line. To prevent such program disturb, it is proposed to open the channel from one side of a selected word line to the other side of the selected word line after a sensing operation for program verify and prior to a subsequent programming voltage being applied.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a plurality of non-volatile memory cells; control lines connected to the memory cells; a write circuit connected to the control lines and configured to write data to selected memory cells by applying a program voltage to a selected control line; a verify circuit connected to the control lines; and a temperature sensing circuit in communication with the verify circuit; the verify circuit configured to verify writing of data to the selected memory cells by applying non-zero voltages to the control lines and sensing the selected memory cells; and the verify circuit further configured to ramp down the voltages on the control lines after the sensing; wherein in response to a temperature sensed by the temperature sensing circuit being below a trigger temperature, the verify circuit is configured to ramp down the voltages on the control lines after the sensing, such that an unselected control line adjacent to the selected control line and connected to already programmed memory cells is ramped down subsequent to ramping down the selected control line and one or more other ones of the control lines.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9375
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16002836', '16002825', '14728615', '15678683', '13674470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8076316176962097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5102819927854533
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7778966552051341
- Mean Citation Score: 270.0471
- Max Citation Score: 320.2089200000001
- Similarity Product: 234.46636999537952

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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