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 5):
The electronic circuit of  claim 1 , wherein the delay line includes an n line and a p line, the n line configured to carry a signal in a first direction, the p line configured to carry the signal in a second direction opposite the first direction, a majority of the n line proximate to a majority of the p line;\n wherein the tap line includes:\n a first tap line proximate to portions of the n line and configured to couple the n line to an output node at selected ones of the tap locations on the n line; and \n a second tap line proximate to the first tap line, proximate to portions of the p line, and configured to couple the p line to an output node at selected ones of the tap locations on the p line; and \n wherein individual tap locations include a coupling between the first tap line and the n line, and a coupling between the second tap line and the p line, and individual tap locations are located so that tap location couplings on the n line are proximate to corresponding tap location couplings on the p line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68333
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13446946', '15436930', '14136276', '10950608', '10887969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7705654391940644
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4666367179947905
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.740172567074137
- Mean Citation Score: 149.86804999999995
- Max Citation Score: 153.64595
- Similarity Product: 113.7179689320326

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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