PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971265
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["361", "056000"]

Abstract:
ESD protection circuitry that includes one, or more, of the following features, characteristics and/or advantages: (i) use of different “diode types” (for example, Schottky type, PN type, p-type diode-connected field-effect transistor (FET) type, NFET type)) in a series-connected diode set (connected in series with respect to a device-under-protection) and a parallel-connected diode set (connected in parallel with respect to a device-under-protection and the series-connected diode set); (ii) a FET is connected in series with a target device such that the FET's gate can be turned on during normal operation and the FET's gate is resistively coupled to the FET's source; and/or (iii) two FETs are connected in series with a target device such both FETs gates can be turned on during normal operation, one FET's gate is resistively coupled to its source, and the other FET's gate is electrically coupled to its drain.

Claim (Index 5):
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuitry for protecting a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor from electrostatic events, the ESD protection circuitry comprising:\n a first series-connected field-effect transistor (FET), the first-series connected FET including a gate, a source and a drain where the source of the first series-connected FET is connected to the top lead of the MR sensor; a second series-connected field-effect transistor (FET), the second-series connected FET including a gate, a source and a drain where the source of the second series-connected FET is connected to the drain of the first series-connected FET; and control circuitry; wherein: the first series-connected FET is adapted to be electrically connected in series with the MR sensor; and the control circuitry is structured, connected and/or programmed to turn on the gate of the first series-connected FET during operation of the MR sensor; the gate of the first series-connected FET is electrically connected to the source of the first series-connected FET; the second series-connected FET is adapted to be electrically connected in series with the MR sensor; the control circuitry is further structured, connected and/or programmed to turn on the gate of the second series-connected FET during operation of the MR sensor; and the gate of the second series-connected FET is electrically connected to the drain of the second series-connected FET.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25316
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14635005', '14797675', '14267185', '13768263', '12108230']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8343961100794319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5458839426613973
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8055448933376285
- Mean Citation Score: 262.205908
- Max Citation Score: 411.86844
- Similarity Product: 367.3511337354897

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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