PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["323", "269000"]

Abstract:
A digital voltage regulator and a method to regulate an output voltage at an output node based on an input voltage is presented. The regulator has a driver stage with N driver slices, with N>1. Each of the N driver slices can be activated or deactivated individually. A driver slice comprises a current source to provide an output current component to the output node, if the driver slice is activated. Furthermore, the regulator has a control unit to activate a number n of the N driver slices, based on a deviation of a feedback voltage from a reference voltage, where the feedback voltage is dependent on the output voltage.

Claim (Index 12):
The digital voltage regulator according to  claim 1 , wherein the regulator comprises,\n drive circuitry configured to generate a first drive voltage and a second drive voltage based on a reference current provided by a reference current source; and activation circuitry which is configured to couple a pass transistor of a driver slice with the first drive voltage to activate the driver slice or to couple the pass transistor of the driver slice with the second drive voltage to deactivate the driver slice; wherein the first drive voltage is greater than the second drive voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12281
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13335056', '11210497', '15429217', '11871910', '15171680']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7114927251476444
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4804912710816593
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6883925797410458
- Mean Citation Score: 199.471406
- Max Citation Score: 209.43922
- Similarity Product: 169.02794531094312

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