PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966391
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "324000"]

Abstract:
A NOR-type three-dimensional memory device includes a vertically alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and laterally alternating sequences of respective active region pillars and respective memory stack structures. Each laterally alternating sequence is electrically isolated from the electrically conductive layers by a respective blocking dielectric layer at each level of the electrically conductive layers. Each memory stack structures include a memory film and a semiconductor channel material portion that vertically extend through the vertically alternating stack. The active region pillars include an alternating sequence of source pillar and drain pillars.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein:\n active region openings include first-type active region openings that cut through only a respective one of the line trench fill structures and second-type active region openings that cut through end regions of a respective neighboring pair of the line trench fill structures; each of the plurality of line trenches has a uniform first width along a second horizontal direction between a respective pair of parallel sidewalls that extend along the first horizontal direction, the second horizontal direction being perpendicular to the first horizontal direction; the first-type active region openings have a second width along the second horizontal direction and intersects a pair of parallel sidewalls of a respective one of the line trenches; the second-type active region openings have a third width that is greater than a sum of a spacing between a neighboring pair of line trenches and twice the first width; at least three active region openings cuts through each of the plurality of line trenches; and each of the active region openings has a pair of straight sidewalls that extend along the second horizontal direction and having a width that is at least the first width.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85455
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15943859', '14739284', '14739354', '15956139', '15695225']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9437845375183632
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.53716449939867
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9031225337063938
- Mean Citation Score: 375.991692
- Max Citation Score: 391.69577
- Similarity Product: 229.3736415133381

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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