PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046814
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["257", "324000"]

Abstract:
Methods and structures of a three-dimensional memory device are disclosed. In an example, the memory device includes a substrate, a first tier of conductor layers of a first length comprising a first plurality of conductor layers extending along a first direction over the substrate. The first direction is substantially parallel to a top surface of the substrate. In some embodiments, the memory device also includes at least one connection portion conductively connecting two or more conductor layers of the first tier, and a first metal contact via conductively shared by connected conductor layers of the first tier and connected to a first metal interconnect.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for forming a memory device, comprising:\n providing a substrate; forming an alternating stack over the substrate, the alternating stack comprising a plurality of tiers of sacrificial layer/insulating layer pairs extending along a first direction substantially parallel to a top surface of the substrate; forming a plurality of tiers of conductor layers extending along the first direction based on the alternating stack; forming at least one connection portion conductively connecting two or more of the conductor layers of the plurality of tiers of conductor layers; and forming at least one metal contact via conductively shared by connected conductor layers, the at least one metal contact via being connected to at least one metal interconnect.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15269041', '15046740', '14614757', '15611220', '15269294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9028823815906772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4742118665195637
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8600153300835658
- Mean Citation Score: 208.807618
- Max Citation Score: 214.31035
- Similarity Product: 180.3142451980532

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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