PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868551
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["331", "057000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for generating an oscillating signal using a ring oscillator circuit. One example ring oscillator circuit generally includes one or more delay elements coupled in series, wherein an output of a last one of the delay elements is coupled to an input of an initial one of the delay elements, and a plurality of resistive elements selectively coupled to a tail node of at least a first one of the delay elements, the resistive elements being configured to coarse-tune a frequency of an oscillating signal generated by the ring oscillator circuit. For certain aspects, the ring oscillator circuit further includes a plurality of tunable capacitive elements coupled to an output node of at least a second one of the delay elements, the tunable capacitive elements being configured to fine-tune the frequency of the oscillating signal.

Claim (Index 29):
The apparatus of  claim 25 , wherein the one or more means for delaying comprise a first means for delaying and a second means for delaying, wherein an output of the first means for delaying is coupled to an input of the second means for delaying, wherein the first means for delaying is the initial one of the means for delaying, and wherein an output of the second means for delaying is the output of the last one of the means for delaying and is coupled to the input of the first means for delaying.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45161
- Patent Class: 331.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638183', '15060198', '15609951', '13030843', '12686686']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7415023526457103
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5144532058183717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7187974379629765
- Mean Citation Score: 209.718842
- Max Citation Score: 224.78784
- Similarity Product: 134.36531197586058

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

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