PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862752
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["307", "109000"]

Abstract:
A capacitor has a variable capacitance settable by a bias voltage. A method for setting the bias voltage including the steps of: (a) injecting a constant current to bias the capacitor; (b) measuring the capacitor voltage at the end of a time interval; (c) calculating the capacitance value obtained at the end of the time interval; (d) comparing this value with a desired value; and (e) repeating steps (a) to (d) so as long as the calculated value is different from the set point value. When calculated value matches the set point value; the measured capacitor voltage is stored as a bias voltage to be applied to the capacitor for setting the variable capacitance.

Claim (Index 1):
A circuit, comprising:\n a capacitor having a settable capacitance, the capacitor including a control terminal; a digital to analog converter circuit having an output configured to generate an analog bias that is applied to the control terminal of the capacitor and having an input configured to receive a digital control word specifying a value of the analog bias; and a microcontroller circuit configured to generate the digital control word so as to apply the analog bias to the control terminal of the capacitor for a time interval, determine a capacitance value of the capacitor at the end of the time interval, compare the determined capacitance value with a desired capacitance value and save the digital control word for the analog bias if the determined capacitance value does not differ from the desired capacitance value for configuring the settable capacitance of the capacitor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32203
- Patent Class: 307.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14964654', '15862707', '14602015', '14632981', '15252868']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.778857893547483
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4978281172115029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.750754915913885
- Mean Citation Score: 231.01400400000003
- Max Citation Score: 269.59674
- Similarity Product: 217.7213515256524

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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