PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868551
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["331", "057000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for generating an oscillating signal using a ring oscillator circuit. One example ring oscillator circuit generally includes one or more delay elements coupled in series, wherein an output of a last one of the delay elements is coupled to an input of an initial one of the delay elements, and a plurality of resistive elements selectively coupled to a tail node of at least a first one of the delay elements, the resistive elements being configured to coarse-tune a frequency of an oscillating signal generated by the ring oscillator circuit. For certain aspects, the ring oscillator circuit further includes a plurality of tunable capacitive elements coupled to an output node of at least a second one of the delay elements, the tunable capacitive elements being configured to fine-tune the frequency of the oscillating signal.

Claim (Index 6):
The ring oscillator circuit of  claim 2 , wherein each of the plurality of tunable capacitive elements is coupled between the output node and a different one of a plurality of tuning nodes for tuning the capacitive elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45161
- Patent Class: 331.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638183', '15060198', '15609951', '13030843', '12686686']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7458060559411888
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4908018171256862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7203056320596386
- Mean Citation Score: 209.718842
- Max Citation Score: 224.78784
- Similarity Product: 180.88896260295863

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

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