PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032752
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["341", "172000"]

Abstract:
A differential digital-to-analog (DAC) circuit that can include a reservoir capacitor and various switches to couple the bottom plates of the input capacitors, e.g., bit-trial capacitors, to reference voltages, e.g., REF+ or REF−. In this manner, the reservoir capacitor can be used to provide any differential charge to the input capacitors, e.g., bit-trial capacitors, and the reference voltages, e.g., REF+ and REF−, can be used to provide any common mode charge to the input capacitors.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the input capacitors are bit-trial capacitors, wherein the differential ADC circuit further comprises an auxiliary ADC circuit having a resolution less than a resolution of the first ADC circuit, the method further comprising:\n coupling the analog input signal onto the auxiliary ADC circuit; performing at least one bit-trial using the auxiliary ADC circuit; and loading an output of the auxiliary ADC circuit onto at least one of the bit-trial capacitors of the first ADC circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11628
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15213078', '15983658', '14949423', '11633368', '12113307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6347384911733338
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5386993657401395
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6251345786300144
- Mean Citation Score: 342.28174
- Max Citation Score: 369.75043
- Similarity Product: 284.3643266400158

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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