PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154522
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["375", "326000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for duty cycle correction of clock signals. An input clock signal passes through a pair of output transistors, which provides an output clock signal based on the input clock signal. A duty cycle sensor generates a first correction signal based on the output clock signal. The first correction signal is at least partially opposite of the output clock signal. A duty cycle corrector generates a second correction signal based on the first correction signal. The duty cycle corrector includes two or more transistors for generating the second correction signal. The second correction signal is applied to the output clock signal. There are other embodiments as well.

Claim (Index 1):
A duty cycle correction device comprising:\n a first pair of transistors being configured to receive a first clock signal and output a second clock signal, the first clock signal being characterized by a first duty cycle and a signal frequency; an output terminal for outputting a corrected clock signal, the output terminal being coupled to the first pair of transistors, the corrected clock signal being characterized by a second duty cycle, the second duty cycle being closer to 50% than the first duty cycle; a duty cycle sensor coupled to the output terminal and being configured to generate a first correction signal, the first correction signal being substantially inverted relative to the first clock signal; and a duty cycle corrector being configured to generate a second correction signal using at least the first correction signal, the second correction signal being coupled to the output terminal, the duty cycle corrector comprising a second pair of transistors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25926
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15389830', '15840984', '11819414', '13957004', '15206622']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4731218853802473
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5334433433360721
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4791540311758299
- Mean Citation Score: 305.343444
- Max Citation Score: 359.87744
- Similarity Product: 346.088264644146

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