PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896355
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "340000"]

Abstract:
A continuous-time sampler has series-connected delay lines with intermediate output taps between the delay lines. Signal from an output tap can be buffered by an optional voltage buffer for performance. A corresponding controlled switch is provided with each output tap to connect the output tap to an output of the continuous-time sampler. The delay lines store a continuous-time input signal waveform within the propagation delays. Controlling the switches corresponding to the output taps with pulses that match the propagation delays can yield a same input signal value at the output. The continuous-time sampler effectively “holds” or provides the input signal value at the output for further processing without requiring switched-capacitor circuits that sample the input signal value onto some capacitor. In some cases, the continuous-time sampler can be a recursively-connected delay line. The continuous-time sampler can be used as the front end sampler in a variety of analog-to-digital converters.

Claim (Index 20):
The apparatus of  claim 17 , further comprising:\n further delay means for generating the pulses, wherein the further delay means for generating the pulses are structurally the same as the delay means to ensure matching of the propagation delays.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92771
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15794367', '14194107', '11630753', '15815968', '15865742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4669134908874404
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4870907347307774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4689312152717741
- Mean Citation Score: 174.852384
- Max Citation Score: 184.93279
- Similarity Product: 126.10257659419597

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

Dataset: test