PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["363", "021010"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed toward a switching power supply and improvements thereof. In accordance with an embodiment, a switching power supply is provided. The switching power supply comprises: a first power supply stage that forms an intermediate regulated voltage; and a second power supply stage configured to accept the intermediate regulated voltage and configured to form a regulated output voltage, wherein the intermediate voltage is set to an initial target level upon start-up of the power supply and wherein the intermediate regulated voltage is set to a second target level during steady-state operation of the power supply.

Claim (Index 25):
A switching power supply comprising:\n a first power supply stage that forms an intermediate regulated voltage, the first power supply stage comprising first controller circuitry for controlling switching in the first power supply stage for forming the intermediate regulated voltage, wherein the intermediate voltage is set to an initial target level upon start-up of the power supply and wherein the intermediate regulated voltage is set to a second target level during steady-state operation of the power supply; and a second power supply stage configured to accept the intermediate regulated voltage and configured to form a power supply output voltage, the second power supply stage comprising a controller circuitry for controlling switching in the second power supply stage and the second power supply stage comprising a voltage regulator, wherein during a start-up phase of the switching power supply, the voltage regulator forms a first regulated output for powering the controller circuitry of the second power supply stage and wherein after the start-up phase, the first regulated output is coupled to the power supply output voltage, the power supply output voltage being regulated at a higher level than the first regulated output, thereby disabling the voltage regulator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15143086', '15898116', '15143243', '12549222', '12891772']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.843781902386832
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5671078471628143
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8161144968644303
- Mean Citation Score: 369.194596
- Max Citation Score: 467.81604
- Similarity Product: 411.24970305677886

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

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