PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149745
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["327", "109000"]

Abstract:
In a switching converter having an inductive load, a current may flow through the body diode of a transistor even though the gate of the transistor is being controlled to keep the transistor off. Then when the other transistor of the switch leg is turned on, a reverse recovery current flows in the reverse direction through the body diode. To reduce switching losses associated with such current flows, a gate driver integrated circuit detects when current flow through the body diode rises above a threshold current. The gate driver integrated circuit then controls the transistor to turn on. Then when the other transistor of the switch leg is made to turn on, the gate driver first turns the transistor off. When the gate-to-source voltage of the turning off transistor drops below a threshold voltage, then the gate driver integrated circuit allows and controls the other transistor to turn on.

Claim (Index 5):
The gate driver integrated circuit of  claim 4 , wherein the body diode current flow monitoring circuitry comprises a first comparator, wherein the first comparator outputs a first comparator output signal that is communicated to the high-side driver logic circuitry, wherein the V GS  monitoring circuitry comprises a second comparator, wherein the second comparator outputs a second comparator output signal that is communicated to a low-side driver logic circuit, wherein the high-side driver logic circuitry receives a high-side driver digital control signal from the high-side driver control signal input terminal, and wherein the gate driver integrated circuit does not include any digital processor that fetches and executes instructions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15901829', '15088124', '13453649', '15423421', '15686161']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8023278450029747
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.566971167289579
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7787921772316352
- Mean Citation Score: 271.418332
- Max Citation Score: 478.42197
- Similarity Product: 373.259861370188

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