PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912128
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["341", "118000"]

Abstract:
Some or all of a comparator circuit of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit can be efficiently repurposed or reused for residue amplification for efficient noise-shaping, e.g., in a noise-shaping feedback configuration. A preamplifier portion of a comparator circuit in an oversampling ADC can be re-purposed to provide an amplifier to amplify or otherwise modify a residue left after the bit trials of a conversion cycle. The amplified or modified residue can then be used elsewhere, for example, for noise-shaping by applying a noise transfer function (NTF), a result of which can then be fed back (e.g., summed with the next sampled input at an input of the comparator circuit for use in the N bit trials of the next ADC cycle).

Claim (Index 5):
The ADC circuit of  claim 4 , wherein the control circuit is further configured to:\n disconnect the first and second primary capacitors from the amplifier circuit; connect the first and second primary capacitors in opposition to generate a voltage difference; connect the first and second primary capacitors in series to double the voltage difference, wherein the control circuit configured to transfer the charge to a secondary capacitor is configured to: transfer the charge from the first and second primary capacitors to the secondary capacitor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14724555', '15261643', '15583183', '15213078', '15019430']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6458037111557061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5227566902810138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6334990090682369
- Mean Citation Score: 281.16644
- Max Citation Score: 309.2316600000001
- Similarity Product: 231.8026122405768

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

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