PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238092
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["327", "156000"]

Abstract:
A PFD outputs a detection signal based on a phase difference or a frequency difference between a reference signal and a feedback signal, a charge pump circuit outputs a pulse signal based on the detection signal, and a loop filter outputs a control voltage based on the pulse signal. A VCO includes a ring oscillator where a plurality of delay element units, which include a plurality of delay elements (for example, inverter circuits) connected in parallel, are connected in series in a ring, controls the frequency of the output signal of the ring oscillator based on the control voltage, and controls the phase of the output signal of the ring oscillator by controlling the active number of delay elements, out of the plurality of delay elements, based on the detection signal. A frequency divider circuit generates and outputs a feedback signal by dividing the frequency of the output signal.

Claim (Index 7):
The injection-locked PLL circuit according to  claim 6 , wherein\n the voltage-controlled oscillator circuit includes: a first capacitor that is connected to both ends of the first delay elements on the first current path; a second capacitor that is connected to both ends of the second delay elements on the second current path; and a third capacitor that is connected to both ends of the third delay elements on the third current path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67213
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11712034', '11811552', '10653919', '13543971', '11594448']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7983963162250984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4952673109853576
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7680834157011244
- Mean Citation Score: 239.91027000000005
- Max Citation Score: 252.33823
- Similarity Product: 186.3084809268624

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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