PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955862
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["341", "033000"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods of converting a capacitance measured on a sense element to a digital value are described. One apparatus includes a modulator having a modulator capacitor, a sense element selectively coupled in a feedback loop of the modulator to operate as a switching capacitor. The apparatus also includes a first switch coupled between a voltage source and a first node of the switching capacitor and a second switch coupled between the first node of the switching capacitor and a first node of the modulator capacitor. The switching capacitor provides a charge current to the modulator capacitor via the second switch. The modulator measures a capacitance of the sense element and converts the measured capacitance to a digital code representing the capacitance.

Claim (Index 29):
The capacitance-to-code converter of  claim 28 , wherein the first conversion circuit and the second conversion circuit comprise substantially the same circuit elements, and wherein the circuit elements are configured to convert a self capacitance and a mutual capacitance in a first mode and a second mode, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14832529', '13049798', '13917528', '11600255', '14514204']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6585378489994422
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5534774233580029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6480318064352983
- Mean Citation Score: 366.314116
- Max Citation Score: 402.09372
- Similarity Product: 303.9461522795964

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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