PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954955
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["365", "185020"]

Abstract:
A memory device includes a memory array arranged in rows and columns. The memory array may have at least four non-volatile memory (NVM) cells coupled in the same column of the memory array, in which each NVM cell may include a memory gate. The first and second NVM cells of the at least four NVM cells may share a first source region, and the third and fourth NVM cells may share a second source region. The memory gates of the first and second NVM cells may not be electrically coupled with one another, and the first and second source regions may not be electrically coupled with one another. Each of the first and second source regions may be electrically coupled with at least another source region of the same column in the memory array.

Claim (Index 41):
A method, comprising:\n providing a non-volatile memory (NVM) array, wherein the non-volatile memory array includes at least four non-volatile memory (NVM) cells coupled in a same column of the NVM array, wherein each NVM cell includes a memory gate and a select gate, wherein first and second NVM cells of the at least four NVM cells share a first source line, and third and fourth NVM cells share a second source line, and wherein the first and second source lines each shares a common electrical node with at least another source line of the same column that is not adjacent to the first and second source lines respectively; coupling a high select voltage to a first select gate to select the first memory cell for a program operation; coupling a low select voltage to a second select gate to unselect the second memory cell for the program operation; coupling a high program voltage to the first memory gate and a low inhibit voltage to the second memory gate; and coupling two different source voltages to the first source line and the second source line from two different source line driver circuits, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15471418', '15279194', '15918704', '15496993', '15614271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7921835953686207
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5320277408173522
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7661680099134939
- Mean Citation Score: 252.147636
- Max Citation Score: 358.418
- Similarity Product: 326.7172471996546

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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