PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150417
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "282000"]

Abstract:
A voltage driver includes a voltage input, a voltage regulation controller including an on/off input. The voltage regulation controller is configured to control a switching converter in a first mode, a second mode, and at least one additional mode. The switching converter is configured to operate as an open pass switch in the first mode, is configured to operate as a closed pass switch in the second mode, and is configured to operate as an overcurrent and overvoltage protection switch in the at least one additional mode. A discrete output driver control and monitoring circuit can be used to control the switching converter. The output driver control and monitoring circuit includes a controller coupled to a communication bus and is configured to provide high level control instructions to the communication bus.

Claim (Index 1):
A discrete output driver control and monitoring circuit comprising:\n a microprocessor controller coupled to a communication bus and configured to provide high level control instructions to the communication bus; a programmable circuit coupled to the communications bus and configured to convert a high level control instruction received from the communications bus to at least one control signal; a voltage driver connected to said programmable circuit such that said at least one control signal sets an operational mode of at least one component of the voltage driver; and wherein the voltage driver includes a voltage input, a voltage regulation controller including an on/off input, the voltage regulation controller configured to control a switching converter in a first mode, a second mode, and at least one additional mode; the switching converter being configured to operate as an open pass switch in the first mode, configured to operate as a closed pass switch in the second mode, and configured to operate as an overcurrent and overvoltage protection switch in the at least one additional mode, wherein the first mode is a 0% duty cycle, the second mode is a 100% duty cycle, and the at least one additional mode is greater than 0% duty cycle and less than 100% duty cycle, and wherein the at least one additional mode is mutually exclusive with the first mode and the second mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66038
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14669519', '14710068', '14376253', '12103993', '12939639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7353106723383411
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4976304164850731
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7115426467530144
- Mean Citation Score: 203.919384
- Max Citation Score: 265.89478
- Similarity Product: 206.847912230773

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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