PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["323", "269000"]

Abstract:
A digital voltage regulator and a method to regulate an output voltage at an output node based on an input voltage is presented. The regulator has a driver stage with N driver slices, with N>1. Each of the N driver slices can be activated or deactivated individually. A driver slice comprises a current source to provide an output current component to the output node, if the driver slice is activated. Furthermore, the regulator has a control unit to activate a number n of the N driver slices, based on a deviation of a feedback voltage from a reference voltage, where the feedback voltage is dependent on the output voltage.

Claim (Index 25):
The method according  claim 24 , wherein\n the regulator comprises a second PMOS current mirror providing a second mirrored reference current from the reference current; and the regulator comprises a second drive transistor and a second intermediate resistor which are arranged in series, with the second intermediate resistor being arranged between the second drive transistor and the reference potential, such that the second mirrored reference current flows through the second drive transistor and the second intermediate resistor; the second intermediate resistor has a smaller resistance value than the intermediate resistor; and the activation circuitry couples the gate of the pass transistor with or to decouple the gate of the pass transistor from a second drive voltage corresponding to a voltage drop at the second intermediate resistor and the second drive transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12281
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13335056', '11210497', '15429217', '11871910', '15171680']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7115638049603642
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.480140879920971
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6884215124564248
- Mean Citation Score: 199.471406
- Max Citation Score: 209.43922
- Similarity Product: 169.6102904493606

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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