PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959763
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "233000"]

Abstract:
The invention concerns a pixel of an image array comprising one or more charge storage structures ( 200 ), each charge storage structure comprising: a first charge storage trench ( 202 ) doped to have a first conductivity type and having a first end ( 208 ) configured to receive charge accumulated by a photodiode; a second charge storage trench ( 204 ) doped to have the first conductivity type; and a first transfer gate ( 212 ) linking a second end ( 214 ) of the first charge storage trench ( 202 ) and the second charge storage trench ( 202, 204 ) to a sense node ( 216 ), wherein the first and second charge storage trenches are linked together by a linking channel ( 206 ) doped to have the first conductivity type and bordering a portion of an edge of the transfer gate ( 212 ).

Claim (Index 4):
The pixel of  claim 1 , wherein the linking channel provides an electrostatic potential barrier between the first and second charge storage trenches, the linking channel being configured such that the electrostatic potential barrier is lower than an electrostatic potential barrier between the first charge storage trench and the sense node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49206
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15637616', '12910176', '13014255', '15839011', '11158045']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.908270170201192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5015744857624436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8676006017573171
- Mean Citation Score: 203.913924
- Max Citation Score: 216.5912
- Similarity Product: 151.05145890097617

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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