PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974956
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["327", "277000"]

Abstract:
In described examples, an electronic circuit for delaying a signal (received at an input node) includes a delay line with multiple tap locations, a tap line proximate to the delay line and coupled to an output node, and multiple groups of switches. Switches in the groups of switches are severally coupled between tap locations corresponding to the respective group of switches, and the tap line. When the signal is propagated through the delay line, a first number of the switches corresponding to a selected tap location are closed, a second number of the switches corresponding to an adjacent tap location are closed, and the signal is transmitted with a delay through the closed switches, to the tap line, to the output node. The delay includes an average, weighted using the first and second numbers, of delays corresponding to the selected and adjacent tap locations.

Claim (Index 10):
An electronic circuit for delaying a signal, comprising:\n a conductive p tap line coupled to a p line output node; a conductive n tap line coupled to an n line output node, the p tap line proximate to the n tap line; a conductive p line, the p line including multiple p line blocks, individual p line blocks comprising a three-sided rectangular portion coupled to a rectangular loop so that an open end of the three-sided rectangular portion faces the p tap line and the n tap line, a first portion of the p line being on a first side of the p tap line and a first side of the n tap line, a second portion of the p line being on a second side of the p tap line and a second side of the n tap line, the second side of the p tap line and the second side of the n tap line being opposite the first side of the p tap line and the first side of the n tap line, the first and second portions of the p line being coupled to each other, the p line configured to receive the signal at a p line input node, the p line coupled to a termination impedance at a p line termination node, the p line configured to conduct current from the p line input node to the p line termination node; a conductive n line, the n line including multiple n line blocks, individual n line blocks comprising a three-sided rectangular portion coupled to a rectangular loop so that an open end of the three-sided rectangular portion faces the p tap line and the n tap line, a first portion of the n line being on the first side of the p tap line and the first side of the n tap line, a second portion of the n line being on the second side of the p tap line and the second side of the n tap line, the first and second portions of the n line being coupled to each other, the n line configured to receive the signal at an n line input node, the n line coupled to a termination impedance at an n line termination node, the n line configured to conduct current from the n line termination node to the n line input node; multiple tap locations, each tap location in the multiple locations comprising a location on the p line at which the p line is coupled to the p tap line via a switch, and a location on the n line at which the n line is coupled to the n tap line via a switch, the location on the p line proximate to the location on the n line; and in which individual p line three-sided rectangular portions are proximate to, parallel to, and surround respective individual n line rectangular loops on three sides, and individual n line three-sided rectangular portions are proximate to, parallel to, and surround respective individual p line rectangular loops on three sides.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68333
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13446946', '15436930', '14136276', '10950608', '10887969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7477994542811728
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4696837977492242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7199878886279779
- Mean Citation Score: 149.86804999999995
- Max Citation Score: 153.64595
- Similarity Product: 108.86369126372934

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

Dataset: test