PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["327", "175000"]

Abstract:
In an embodiment, a PWM modulation circuit includes a first circuit block configured to receive a square wave input signal and produce from the square wave input signal a triangular wave signal, a second circuit block configured to receive a modulating signal and produce a PWM signal by comparing the modulating signal with a carrier signal, a switching circuit block coupled between the first circuit block and the second circuit block and sensitive to reference signals having upper and lower reference values and selectively switchable between a carrier transfer setting in which the switching circuit block couples the first circuit block to the second circuit block to transfer the triangular wave signal as the carrier signal, and one or more carrier forcing settings for optimizing or inhibiting pulse skipping in the PWM signal, wherein the switching circuit block forces the carrier signal to the upper and lower reference values, respectively.

Claim (Index 4):
The circuit of  claim 1 , further comprising a clock circuit block sensitive to the rising and falling edges of the square wave input signal, the clock circuit block configured to drive the switching circuit block to switch between the carrier transfer setting and the carrier forcing setting at the rising and falling edges of the square wave input signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57377
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12172406', '11115550', '15577215', '15345926', '12448827']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7466187528573794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4660769691883143
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.718564574490473
- Mean Citation Score: 144.44997
- Max Citation Score: 149.33133999999995
- Similarity Product: 107.95409614659424

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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