PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["326", "063000"]

Abstract:
An analog multiplexer includes inputs and one output. A switching circuit is coupled between each input and the output. Each switching circuit includes an NMOS switching module, having an on state and an off state, and a control module supplied by a first supply voltage and operating to reduce leakage currents of the NMOS switching module when in the off state. The control module further operates to make the first NMOS switching module bidirectional irrespective of voltages present at the input and at the output.

Claim (Index 22):
The bidirectional switching circuit according to  claim 17 , wherein the control circuit comprises an input circuit coupled to the input and to the output, and wherein the input circuit comprises:\n a first transistor having a gate coupled to the input, a drain coupled to ground and a source coupled to the supply voltage via a first network comprising at least one first diode in series with a first current source, a second transistor having a gate coupled to the output, a drain coupled to ground and a source coupled to the supply voltage via a second network comprising at least one second diode in series with a second current source; wherein a cathode of the at least one second diode is coupled to a control terminal of the transistor switch circuit, a third transistor having a gate coupled to a node between the first current source and the at least one first diode, a drain coupled to ground via a third diode and a third current source, and a source coupled to the supply voltage via a fourth diode, and a fourth transistor having a gate coupled to a node between the second current source and the at least one second diode, a drain coupled to ground via a fifth diode and the third current source, and a source coupled to the supply voltage via a sixth diode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78431
- Patent Class: 326.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15679933', '14837279', '10586507', '11871910', '11400018']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6641248446574762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5261577444740819
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6503281346391367
- Mean Citation Score: 255.805964
- Max Citation Score: 363.46228
- Similarity Product: 308.9565083547116

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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