PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007968
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
A deglitch circuit, or look-back, may be used to reduce or avoid reacting to a transient overvoltage situation by a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator may delay reacting to an overvoltage situation unless the overvoltage situation persists for more than a first programmable number of cycles.

Claim (Index 10):
A method useful in operating a multi-phase DC-DC switching voltage regulator, the multi-phase DC-DC switching voltage regulator having a plurality of parallel phases coupled to an output capacitor and a load in parallel, each phase including a high side switch and a low side switch coupled in series, with an inductor having a first end coupled to a node between the high side switch and the low side switch and a second end coupled to an output capacitor in parallel to a load, and a bypass switch coupled between the first end of the inductor and the second end of the inductor, a voltage at a node between the inductor, output capacitor, and the load being an output voltage of the multi-phase DC-DC switching voltage regulator, the method comprising:\n determining that the output voltage exceeds an overvoltage threshold for a programmable number of cycles, the programmable number of cycles being at least a plurality of cycles; responsive to determining that the output voltage exceeds the overvoltage threshold for the programmable number of plurality of cycles, closing the bypass switch for each of a first plurality of phases.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42857
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15056524', '14580418', '15627082', '14593987', '12030269']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7234282609606155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.457887178832323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6968741527477863
- Mean Citation Score: 185.348288
- Max Citation Score: 189.93562
- Similarity Product: 162.157126206007

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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