PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974956
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["327", "277000"]

Abstract:
In described examples, an electronic circuit for delaying a signal (received at an input node) includes a delay line with multiple tap locations, a tap line proximate to the delay line and coupled to an output node, and multiple groups of switches. Switches in the groups of switches are severally coupled between tap locations corresponding to the respective group of switches, and the tap line. When the signal is propagated through the delay line, a first number of the switches corresponding to a selected tap location are closed, a second number of the switches corresponding to an adjacent tap location are closed, and the signal is transmitted with a delay through the closed switches, to the tap line, to the output node. The delay includes an average, weighted using the first and second numbers, of delays corresponding to the selected and adjacent tap locations.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of delaying an electronic signal, the method comprising:\n a) inputting the signal to a delay line with multiple tap locations; b) closing a first number of switches of a first group of multiple switches which are severally coupled between a first one of the tap locations and a tap line which is proximate to the delay line and coupled to an output node, the first tap location corresponding to a first delay; c) closing a second number of switches of a second group of multiple switches which are severally coupled between a second one of the tap locations and the tap line, the second tap location corresponding to a second delay; and d) outputting the signal to the output node with a selected delay, the switches configured so that the selected delay is a weighted average of the first delay and the second delay, the weighted average at least partially dependent on the first specified number and the second specified number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68333
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13446946', '15436930', '14136276', '10950608', '10887969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7510187804701278
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4537047627899955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7212873787021147
- Mean Citation Score: 149.86804999999995
- Max Citation Score: 153.64595
- Similarity Product: 123.4288595617682

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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