PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140982
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["327", "109000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a level shifter with temperature compensation. In some embodiments, the level shifter comprises a transistor, a first resistor, and a second resistor. The first resistor is electrically coupled from a first source/drain of the transistor to a supply node, and the second resistor is electrically coupled from a second source/drain of the transistor to a reference node. Further, the first and second resistors have substantially the same temperature coefficients and comprise group III-V semiconductor material. By having both the first and second resistors, the output voltage of the level shifter is defined by the resistance ratio of the resistors. Further, since the first and second resistors have the same temperature coefficients, temperature induced changes in resistance is largely cancelled out in the ratio and the output voltage is less susceptible to temperature induced change than the first and second resistors individually.

Claim (Index 16):
A method comprising:\n providing a level shifter comprising a first resistor, a second resistor, and a transistor, wherein the first and second resistors are respectively at source/drain terminals of the transistor; applying a dynamic supply voltage across the level shifter, from a terminal of the first resistor to a terminal of the second resistor, wherein the dynamic supply voltage is generated using a bootstrap circuit and is in a dynamic voltage domain that alternates between a low voltage domain and a high voltage domain; applying an input signal to a gate of transistor, wherein the input signal is in the low voltage domain; and generating an output signal from the input signal, wherein the output signal is generated at a node common to the first resistor and the transistor, and wherein the output signal is in the dynamic voltage domain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44776
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15960573', '12804293', '12346200', '15497637', '14877613']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7589256544874294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4605995378347436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7290930428221609
- Mean Citation Score: 172.211066
- Max Citation Score: 177.18182
- Similarity Product: 143.48542307035802

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

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