PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["327", "108000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a (pre)driver circuit includes first and a second output terminal for driving an electronic switch that includes a control terminal and a current path through the switch. The arrangement can operate in one or more first driving configurations (e.g., for PMOS), with the first and second output terminals are coupled to the current path and the control electrode of the electronic switch, respectively, and one or more second driving configurations (e.g., for NMOS, both HS and LS), wherein the first and second output terminals of the driver circuit are coupled to the control electrode and the current path of the electronic switch, respectively.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for driving an electronic switch coupled between a first terminal and a second terminal, the method comprising:\n generating a bias current; turning on a first switch coupled to a first current mirror loop and turning off a second switch coupled to a second current mirror loop and a third switch coupled to a third current mirror loop, or turning on the second switch and turning off the first switch and the third switch; generating a first mirrored current based on the bias current; increasing a first voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal based on the first mirrored current; clamping the first voltage with a clamp circuit coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal; increasing a second mirrored current after clamping the first voltage; and reducing the first mirrored current based on the second mirrored current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43137
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15275363', '11871910', '13317858', '12099742', '14073494']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7165027106226393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4786827472269471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.69272071428307
- Mean Citation Score: 167.923474
- Max Citation Score: 215.97372
- Similarity Product: 180.21546163567533

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