PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909126
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["327", "434000"]

Abstract:
A circuit for operating a transistor device that acts as a switch is presented. The circuit includes the transistor device and a control circuit coupled to a gate of the transistor device. The control circuit is adapted to selectively apply at least a first voltage level, a second voltage level, and a third voltage level to the gate of the transistor device, wherein the first, second, and third voltage levels are distinct voltage levels. The disclosure further relates to a method of operating a transistor device that acts as a switch. The proposed circuit provides additional gate voltages, by contrast to conventional two-level gate drivers. By appropriate choice of the additional gate voltages, reverse mode conductance losses of the transistor device can be reduced and/or to the Safe Operating Area (SOA) of the transistor device can be improved.

Claim (Index 3):
The circuit according to  claim 2 , wherein the third voltage level is an intermediate voltage level between the first and second voltage levels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21739
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10402472', '13463961', '14222992', '14708627', '14215243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7733710492485694
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4783446802429503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438684123480075
- Mean Citation Score: 174.27194400000005
- Max Citation Score: 179.46783
- Similarity Product: 127.4830327376497

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

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