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 19):
The memory device of  claim 18 , further comprising:\n an amplifier capacitor coupled with the digit line and configured to be selectively coupled with the amplifier component, wherein the controller is configured to configure the amplifier component to operate in the latch mode based at least in part on coupling the first input of the amplifier component to the amplifier capacitor and coupling a second input of the amplifier component to a first voltage source, and wherein the controller is configured to cause the state to be latched based at least in part on activating the amplifier component while it is configured in the latch mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37681
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15067838', '15246249', '15957742', '15090789', '15844154']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7719176339793831
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4917546975535372
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7439013403367984
- Mean Citation Score: 237.947584
- Max Citation Score: 243.13431
- Similarity Product: 185.438528915788

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