PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["323", "269000"]

Abstract:
A digital voltage regulator and a method to regulate an output voltage at an output node based on an input voltage is presented. The regulator has a driver stage with N driver slices, with N>1. Each of the N driver slices can be activated or deactivated individually. A driver slice comprises a current source to provide an output current component to the output node, if the driver slice is activated. Furthermore, the regulator has a control unit to activate a number n of the N driver slices, based on a deviation of a feedback voltage from a reference voltage, where the feedback voltage is dependent on the output voltage.

Claim (Index 9):
The digital voltage regulator according to  claim 2 , wherein\n the regulator comprises a drive transistor which is arranged in series with the output of the PMOS current mirror, such that a mirrored reference current flows through the drive transistor; a gate of the drive transistor is coupled with a gate of a pass transistor of a driver slice via activation circuitry; and the control unit is configured to provide a control signal indicating whether the driver slice is to be activated or not; and the activation circuitry is controlled based on the control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12281
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13335056', '11210497', '15429217', '11871910', '15171680']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7119451107094239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782606640407879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6885766660425604
- Mean Citation Score: 199.471406
- Max Citation Score: 209.43922
- Similarity Product: 172.7353600162482

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

Dataset: test