PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941496
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["323", "282000"]

Abstract:
Multiphase voltage regulator systems are disclosed which include parallel signal pathways that functionally cooperate to provide an analog output signal at a constant, or substantially constant, voltage. The parallel signal pathways generate energy storage element charging signals to charge and/or discharge energy storage elements. Energy provided by discharging energy storage elements is thereafter combined to provide the analog output signal. Moreover, the parallel signal pathways compare one of the energy storage element charging signals with a reference input signal to provide a global error correction signal representing a difference, or error, between the reference input signal and the analog output signal. The parallel signal pathways thereafter adjust the energy storage element charging signals in accordance with the global error correction signal to lessen this difference or error. In some situations, manufacturing variations and/or misalignment tolerances present within the parallel signal pathways can cause mismatches between the parallel signal pathways. In these situations, the parallel signal pathways compare remaining energy storage element charging signals to the global error correction signal to provide local error correction signals to quantify these mismatches. Thereafter, the parallel signal pathways adjust the remaining energy storage element charging signals in accordance with the one or more local error correction signals to compensate for these mismatches.

Claim (Index 8):
A multiphase voltage regulator, comprising:\n global error circuitry configured to provide a global error correction signal based on a comparison of an analog output signal to a reference input signal; first combination circuitry configured to combine the global error correction signal and a reference pathway error signal to provide a reference pathway regulation signal; reference channel circuitry configured to provide a first energy storage element charging signal to charge or discharge a first energy storage element based on a comparison of the reference pathway regulation signal to a first switching clock signal from among a plurality of switching clock signals; a plurality of local channel error circuitry configured to provide a plurality of local error correction signals based on a comparison of the first energy storage element charging signal to corresponding energy storage element charging signals from among a plurality of energy storage element charging signals; a plurality of second combination circuitry configured to combine the global error correction signal and the plurality of local error correction signals to provide a plurality of regulator pathway regulation signals; and a plurality of regulator channel circuitry configured to provide the plurality of energy storage element charging signals to charge or discharge a plurality of energy storage elements based on a comparison of the plurality of regulator pathway regulation signals to the plurality of switching clock signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11130539', '14323870', '14454134', '13534753', '13836165']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7041566244666189
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4609985604239165
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6798408180623486
- Mean Citation Score: 143.360274
- Max Citation Score: 145.9998
- Similarity Product: 108.27578053175208

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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