PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957790
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["365", "145000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for sensing a memory cell using lower offset, higher speed sense amplifiers are described. A sense amplifier may include an amplifier component that is configurable to operate in an amplifier mode or a latch mode. In some examples, the amplifier component may be configured to operate in the amplifier or latch mode by activating or deactivating switching components inside the amplifier component. When configured to operate in the amplifier mode, the amplifier component may be used, during a read operation of a memory cell, to pre-charge a digit line and/or amplify a signal received from the memory cell. When configured to operate in the latch mode, the amplifier component may be used to latch a state of the memory cell. In some cases, the amplifier component may use some of the same internal circuitry for pre-charging the digit line, amplifying the signal, and/or latching the state.

Claim (Index 17):
The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein when the plurality of switching components are configured to select the mode as the amplifier mode, the amplifier component is configured to adjust the voltage of the amplifier capacitor by amplifying a difference between a voltage of the digit line and a predetermined voltage using a set of transistors of the plurality of transistors, and wherein when the plurality of switching components are configured to select the mode as the latch mode the amplifier component is configured to latch the state using at least some of the set of transistors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37681
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15067838', '15246249', '15957742', '15090789', '15844154']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7924157285759755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924016618009887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7624143218984768
- Mean Citation Score: 237.947584
- Max Citation Score: 243.13431
- Similarity Product: 189.45033105490924

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

Dataset: test