PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16060610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "104000"]

Abstract:
Various methods and systems are related to pulse-based automatic gain control. In one example, pulse-based automatic gain control (AGC) includes a variable gain amplifier (VGA) configured to amplify an analog input signal to generate an analog output signal based upon an amplification control signal; an integrate-and-fire (IF) sampler configured to generate a pulse train corresponding to the analog output signal; and a gain adjustment configured to generate the amplification control signal based upon a comparison of time between pulses of the pulse train to a reference time. In another example, a method includes determining time between pulses of a pulse train corresponding to an analog output signal from a VGA; generating an amplification control signal based upon a comparison of the time between pulses of the pulse train to a reference time; and adjusting amplification of the VGA in response to the amplification control signal.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 18 , comprising determining the reference time based at least in part upon a constant analog reference, an IF threshold and an IF leaky factor of the IF sampler.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75862
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15754642', '12145379', '11237862', '12366612', '10844950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6936611591044173
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852681886613759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6728218620601132
- Mean Citation Score: 203.95547400000004
- Max Citation Score: 211.39659
- Similarity Product: 156.6588209264374

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

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