PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["341", "118000"]

Abstract:
A multi-bit continuous-time sigma-delta modulator, SDM, includes an input configured to receive an input analog signal, a first summing junction configured to subtract a feedback analog signal from the input analog signal, a loop filter configured to filter an output signal from the first summing junction: an analog-to-digital converter, ADC, configured to convert the filtered analog output signal to a digital output signal; and a feedback path for routing the digital output signal to the first summing junction. The feedback path includes a plurality of digital-to-analog converters, DACs, configured to convert the digital output signal to an analog form. The ADC includes multiple per-bit parallel loops, each loop configured to provide a per-bit current summation of the filtered analog output signal such that an output of the multiple per-bit parallel loops is a multi-bit quantization digital output signal.

Claim (Index 4):
The multi-bit continuous-time SDM of  claim 1 . wherein the wherein the multi-bit SDM is further characterised in that the ADC multiple per-bit parallel loops comprise a plurality of paths, each path further comprising:\n a voltage-to-current converter configured to receive the filtered analog output signal in voltage domain and convert the filtered analog output signal into a current domain; and a DAC configured to selectively convert one bit of the multi-bit quantization digital output signal to an analog form.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62069
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14475852', '15440612', '11679388', '15499872', '11208430']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6318719746236258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5229296498213405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6209777421433973
- Mean Citation Score: 310.35413000000005
- Max Citation Score: 331.5377200000001
- Similarity Product: 274.36399867169627

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

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