PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16206159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["341", "156000"]

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”) has an input terminal configured to receive an analog input voltage signal. A first ADC stage is coupled to the input terminal and is configured to output a first digital value corresponding to the analog input voltage signal and an analog residue signal corresponding to a difference between the first digital value and the analog input signal. A second ADC stage is coupled to the first ADC stage and is configured to convert the analog residue signal to a second digital value. At least one of the first ADC stage and the second ADC stage includes a first sub-stage configured to convert an analog signal to a first number of bits of a digital value representing the analog signal, and a second sub-stage configured to convert the analog signal to a second number of bits of the digital value, where the second number of bits is greater than the first number of bits. A controller is coupled to the first and second ADC stages and configured to combine the first digital value and the second digital value into a digital output signal representing the analog input voltage signal.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10 , wherein converting the analog input voltage signal to the first number of bits of the first digital value, and converting the analog input voltage signal to the second number of bits of the first digital value each include comparing the analog input voltage signal to a reference voltage range, and successively narrowing the reference voltage range in response to the comparison.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.83019
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15720613', '15685198', '15683748', '15586015', '13597075']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5819428175936278
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5470258577070145
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5784511216049664
- Mean Citation Score: 269.60378000000003
- Max Citation Score: 367.89392
- Similarity Product: 282.0003805349922

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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