PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043411
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["257", "326000"]

Abstract:
A method of fabricating a memory device is described. Generally, the method includes: forming on a surface of a substrate a dielectric stack including a tunneling dielectric and a charge-trapping layer overlying the tunneling dielectric; forming a cap layer overlying the dielectric stack, wherein the cap layer comprises a multi-layer cap layer including at least a first cap layer overlying the charge-trapping layer, and a second cap layer overlying the first cap layer; patterning the cap layer and the dielectric stack to form a gate stack of a memory device; removing the second cap layer; and performing an oxidation process to oxidize the first cap layer to form a blocking oxide overlying the charge-trapping layer, wherein the oxidation process consumes the first cap layer. Other embodiments are also described.

Claim (Index 36):
A non-planar semiconductor device, comprising:\n a substrate divided into first and second regions; a memory device comprising;\n a first raised channel, formed in the first region, connecting first raised source and drain regions; and \n a gate stack comprising a tunnel dielectric layer, a charge-trapping layer, and a blocking oxide layer, wherein the gate stack encloses the first raised channel on three sides; and \n a plurality of transistors formed in the second region, each comprising a gate oxide layer enclosing a second raised channel on three sides, wherein at least one gate oxide layer is formed simultaneously to the block oxide layer of the memory device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66038
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14920713', '15335209', '13428201', '14201456', '14018026']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.903768553285025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5094252785093377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8643342258074563
- Mean Citation Score: 269.10023599999994
- Max Citation Score: 283.60223
- Similarity Product: 226.01145060883644

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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