PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["363", "021020"]

Abstract:
A driver includes a high-side driver transistor coupled between supply voltage and the gate drive nodes and provides a first charge current to a high side gate node of the high-side driver transistor until the gate drive node reaches a first gate drive threshold. Then a second charge current is provided to the high side gate node that is less than the first charge current. The gate drive node is limited to a first clamped threshold for a delay time. A gate drive current rise signal sets the value of the second charge current that charges the high side gate node and after the delay time the gate drive voltage is limited to a second clamped threshold greater than the first clamped threshold but less than the supply voltage. A gate drive programmable control signal sets the value of the second clamped threshold.

Claim (Index 14):
The driver of  claim 10 , wherein each of the first and second driver circuits is configured to operate in the first mode in response to an activation signal, and wherein each of the first and second drive circuits comprises:\n a low-side driver transistor coupled between a reference voltage node and the corresponding gate drive node and configured to receive on a low side gate node the complement of the activation signal; a comparator having a first input coupled to the gate drive node and a second input coupled to receive the first gate drive threshold, the comparator configured to generate a gate drive comparator signal; and a programmable current generator coupled to the high side gate node of the high-side driver transistor and coupled to the comparator to receive the gate drive comparator signal, and configured to receive a gate drive current rise signal that sets the value of the second charge current and to receive the activation signal, the programmable current generator configured to provide the first and second charge currents to the high side gate node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90196
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15282459', '12134733', '13801723', '14818699', '12148570']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8320106092407149
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5737573725625517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8061852855728986
- Mean Citation Score: 274.704616
- Max Citation Score: 482.89554
- Similarity Product: 407.98466057921297

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

Dataset: test