PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["363", "140000"]

Abstract:
A method for discontinuous conduction mode operation of a multi-phase DC-to-DC converter includes (a) forward biasing a first inductor being magnetically coupled to a second inductor, (b) reverse biasing the first inductor after forward biasing the first inductor, (c) while reverse biasing the first inductor and before magnitude of current through the first inductor falls to zero, forward biasing the second inductor.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n designating one inductor of a plurality of inductors of the multi-phase DC-to-DC converter as the first inductor in each switching period of the multi-phase DC-to-DC converter; and changing which inductor of the plurality of inductors is designated as the first inductor between successive switching periods of the multi-phase DC-to-DC converter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84615
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13709778', '15126384', '11131761', '11945197', '11756972']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8129156965192815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4913062114831575
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7807547480156691
- Mean Citation Score: 219.44217000000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.65765
- Similarity Product: 173.03240663119553

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

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