PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002836
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 15):
A method, comprising:\n applying a program voltage to a selected word line connected to a plurality of NAND strings; applying boosting voltages to unselected word lines connected to the plurality of NAND strings on a source side of the selected word line and on a drain side of the selected word line, the unselected word lines include a source side neighbor word line that is adjacent to the selected word line; and applying a voltage spike to the source side neighbor word line while applying the boosting voltages to the unselected word lines on the drain side of the selected word line; wherein the applying the program voltage to the selected word line, the applying the boosting voltages to the unselected word lines, and the applying the voltage spike to the source side neighbor word line that is adjacent to the selected word line, are all performed as part of a programming operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9375
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16002825', '16002793', '12167128', '14286844', '12877383']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.817842009122287
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5119831447542762
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.787256122685486
- Mean Citation Score: 299.26921600000014
- Max Citation Score: 332.273
- Similarity Product: 256.7269716380834

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

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