PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976177
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["324", "414000"]

Abstract:
The embodiments disclosed herein describe a set of fault detection circuits for LED circuits in an LED channel. A first fault detection circuit is configured to detect a short fault across one or more LEDs. A second fault detection circuit is configured to detect an open fault across an LED. A third fault detection circuit is configured to detect a short across an LED channel transistor. A fourth fault detection circuit is configured to detect an LED channel sense resistor open fault. A fifth fault detection circuit is configured to detect if the LED channel is being intentionally unused. These fault detect circuits can be implemented in a fault detection integrated circuit coupled to the LED channel.

Claim (Index 11):
The LED fault detection circuit of  claim 10 , the fourth fault detection circuit comprising:\n a second comparator coupled to the source node of the transistor, wherein the second comparator is configured to, when the transistor is configured to operate as an open switch and when the second transistor is configured to operate and when the second transistor is configured to operate as a closed switch, compare the voltage at the source node of the transistor to a second reference voltage greater than a reference voltage, and to output a second fault signal indicating that the LED channel is used or unused.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53061
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14787270', '13347621', '13346625', '13177420', '15959493']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5673989255095324
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5307021175687463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5637292447154538
- Mean Citation Score: 238.732998
- Max Citation Score: 381.03915
- Similarity Product: 323.9915532737464

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