PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907547
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["363", "131000"]

Abstract:
A multi-level converter includes a plurality of capacitors coupled in series between first and second nodes of a DC port and coupled to one another at n-2 first intermediate nodes. The converter also includes a switching circuit including at least one first switch configured to couple the first node of the DC port to an input/output node, at least one second switch configured to couple the second node of the DC port to the input/output node, and at least three third switches configured to couple respective ones of the first intermediate nodes to the input/output node. The converter further includes a control circuit configured to control the first, second and third switches to provide an n-level converter.

Claim (Index 13):
A multi-level converter comprising:\n a plurality of capacitors coupled in series between first and second nodes of a DC port and coupled to one another at first intermediate nodes; and a switching circuit comprising:\n first and second switch branches coupled in series between the first node of the DC port and an input/output node and coupled to one another at a second intermediate node; \n third and fourth switch branches coupled in series between the second node of the DC port and the input/output node and coupled to one another at a third intermediate node; \n a fifth switch branch coupled between a first one of first intermediate nodes and the input/output node and comprising at least two switches coupled in series; \n a sixth switch branch coupled between a second one of the first intermediate nodes and the second intermediate node; and \n a seventh switch branch coupled between a third one of the first intermediate nodes and the third intermediate node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5625
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12651433', '13642456', '15182746', '15610120', '15537919']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8295530472124081
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825850722389437
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7948562497150616
- Mean Citation Score: 226.0367
- Max Citation Score: 228.3491
- Similarity Product: 181.8645073640943

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

Dataset: test