PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
On embodiment pertains to an apparatus including a control loop configured to receive an output voltage sense signal. The control loop includes a compensator; a PWM signal generator coupled to an output of the compensator; a reference circuit configured to receive a tracking signal, and which is configured to low bandwidth low pass filter the tracking signal when the tracking signal amplitude becomes substantially constant and representative of an output voltage that is substantially non-zero, and an error amplifier having a first input coupled to an output of the reference circuit, a second input configured to receive the output voltage sense signal, and an output coupled to the compensator.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , further comprising:\n low bandwidth, low pass filtering the tracking signal; selecting an output tracking signal; wherein determining whether a tracking voltage has entered steady state, and the output voltage of the DC-DC voltage converter is substantially non-zero further comprises:\n determining if the tracking signal is in steady state and if an amplitude of the tracking signal is not equal to substantially a first threshold level representative of a zero-volt output voltage of the DC-DC voltage converter; and \n wherein if the tracking voltage has entered steady state and an output voltage is substantially non-zero, increase the filtering of the tracking voltage further comprises:\n if the tracking signal is in steady state and if the amplitude of the tracking signal is not substantially equal to the first threshold level, then initiate a first timer having a first time period; \n if during the first time period, the tracking signal remains in steady state and if the amplitude of the tracking signal remains not substantially equal to the first threshold level, then select a low bandwidth, low pass filtered tracking signal as the output tracking signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15133463', '11967981', '15133508', '14056108', '15725695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7004299263655627
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4920283319508527
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6795897669240917
- Mean Citation Score: 163.591624
- Max Citation Score: 264.71902
- Similarity Product: 212.1675195823145

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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