PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185729
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["438", "382000"]

Abstract:
Phase change memory apparatuses include memory cells including phase change material, bit lines electrically coupled to aligned groups of at least some of the memory cells, and heating elements electrically coupled to the phase change material of the memory cells. The heating elements include vertical portions extending in a bit line direction. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include dummy columns positioned between memory columns and base contact columns. The dummy columns include phase change memory cells and lack heating elements coupled to the phase change memory cells thereof. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include heating elements operably coupled to phase change memory cells. An interfacial area between the heating elements and the phase change memory cells has a length that is independent of a bit line width. Methods relate to forming such phase change memory apparatuses.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of operating an electronic system, the method comprising:\n receiving at least one input with the electronic system; alternating a state of at least one memory cell between a first state and a second state, comprising:\n applying a first current to a volume of variable resistance material to read the state of the at least one memory cell; and \n applying a second, higher current to the volume of variable resistance material to alter the state of the at least one memory cell, comprising passing the second, higher current through a horizontal portion and through a vertical portion of an L-shaped heating element to the volume of variable resistance material to produce a phase change in the volume of variable resistance material, the vertical portion of the L-shaped heating element having a thickness parallel to elongated portions of a common access line parallel to a first horizontal direction, a width parallel to elongated portions of a common data line parallel to a second horizontal direction, transverse the first horizontal direction, and a height in a vertical direction, transverse to the first horizontal direction and the second horizontal direction, the thickness of the vertical portion being less than the width thereof; and \n producing at least one output with the electronic system responsive at least in part to reading the state of the at least one memory cell.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54386
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15487743', '14285286', '12325801', '11640956', '12006439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8366809112658488
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5279771811312717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.805810538252391
- Mean Citation Score: 244.749102
- Max Citation Score: 326.6432200000001
- Similarity Product: 236.3699661366404

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

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