PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["327", "108000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a (pre)driver circuit includes first and a second output terminal for driving an electronic switch that includes a control terminal and a current path through the switch. The arrangement can operate in one or more first driving configurations (e.g., for PMOS), with the first and second output terminals are coupled to the current path and the control electrode of the electronic switch, respectively, and one or more second driving configurations (e.g., for NMOS, both HS and LS), wherein the first and second output terminals of the driver circuit are coupled to the control electrode and the current path of the electronic switch, respectively.

Claim (Index 1):
A driver circuit comprising:\n a first output node and a second output node, wherein the first output node and the second output node are configured to be coupled to an electronic switch; a bias current circuit configured to generate a bias current; a first switch coupled between the bias current circuit and a first current mirror loop; a second switch coupled between the bias current circuit and a second current mirror loop; a third switch coupled between the bias current circuit and a third current mirror loop; and a clamp circuit coupled between the first output node and the second output node, wherein the driver circuit is configured to:\n turn on the electronic switch by\n in a first step, turning on the first switch and turning off the second switch and the third switch, or turning on the second switch and turning off the first switch and the third switch, and \n after the first step, generating a first mirrored current based on the bias current, increasing a first voltage between the first output node and the second output node based on the first mirrored current, clamping the first voltage with the clamp circuit, increasing a second mirrored current after clamping the first voltage, and reducing the first mirrored current based on the second mirrored current, and \n \n turn off the electronic switch by turning on the third switch and turning off the first switch and the second switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43137
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15275363', '11871910', '13317858', '12099742', '14073494']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7174224808533937
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4740386888201612
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6930841016500704
- Mean Citation Score: 167.923474
- Max Citation Score: 215.97372
- Similarity Product: 188.5131379897356

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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