PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["365", "203000"]

Abstract:
A memory storage device is fabricated using a semiconductor fabrication process. Often times, manufacturing variations and/or misalignment tolerances present within the semiconductor fabrication process can cause the memory storage device to differ from other memory storage devices similarly designed and fabricated by the semiconductor fabrication process. For example, uncontrollable random physical processes in the semiconductor fabrication process can cause small differences, such as differences in doping concentrations, oxide thicknesses, channel lengths, structural widths, and/or parasitics to provide some examples, between these memory storage devices. These small differences can cause bitlines within the memory storage device to be physically unique with no two bitlines being identical. As a result, the uncontrollable random physical processes in the semiconductor fabrication process can cause electronic data read from the memory storage device to propagate along the bitlines at different rates. This physical uniqueness of the bitlines can be utilized to implement a physical unclonable function (PUF) allowing the memory storage device to be differentiated from other memory storage devices similarly designed and fabricated by the semiconductor fabrication process.

Claim (Index 17):
The memory storage device of  claim 16 , wherein the sensing circuitry comprises:\n a plurality of sensing chains, and wherein the sensing circuitry is configured to activate one or more first sensing chains from among the plurality of sensing chains to increase the rate of the transitioning of the trigger control signal or the deactivate one or more second sensing chains from among the plurality of sensing chains to decrease the rate of the transitioning of the trigger control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0989
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14586076', '14919533', '13561673', '10218396', '14090288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.803287306500364
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4700340099250981
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7699619768428373
- Mean Citation Score: 175.04963999999995
- Max Citation Score: 185.74275
- Similarity Product: 141.10846830761432

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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