PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949346
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "324000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a memory device comprises forming an initial silicide layer, including depositing and annealing a precursor metal over a layer of silicon material on a top surface of a stack of conductive strips in amounts effective to result in a majority of the initial silicide layer being a mono-silicon silicide of the precursor metal. The method comprises depositing and annealing additional silicon material over the initial silicide layer in amounts effective to result in formation of di-silicon silicide of the precursor metal to form a landing pad on the top surface of the stack of conductive strips, the formation of the di-silicon silicide of the precursor metal consuming mono-silicon silicide of the initial silicide layer so a majority of a silicide of the landing pad is di-silicon silicide.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , comprising:\n forming data storage structures on sidewalls of the conductive strips in the stack; forming the layer of silicon material on the top surface of the stack of conductive strips and sidewalls of the conductive strips in the stack of conductive strips, the conductive strips in the stack including word lines coupled to memory cells on the sidewalls of the conductive strips in the stack, the layer of silicon material including a vertical thin channel film in the memory cells disposed vertically in contact with the data storage structures on the sidewalls of the conductive strips in the stack, wherein the di-silicon silicide of the precursor metal of the landing pad is electrically continuous with and physically in contact with the vertical thin channel film on the sidewalls of the conductive strips in the stack, wherein the memory cells have channels in the vertical thin channel film and gates in the conductive strips in the stack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14637187', '13772058', '14637204', '11550553', '14486901']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9074265915457526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5021590271535338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8668998351065307
- Mean Citation Score: 249.26367
- Max Citation Score: 256.30667
- Similarity Product: 179.94731619813382

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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