PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["363", "140000"]

Abstract:
A method for discontinuous conduction mode operation of a multi-phase DC-to-DC converter includes (a) forward biasing a first inductor being magnetically coupled to a second inductor, (b) reverse biasing the first inductor after forward biasing the first inductor, (c) while reverse biasing the first inductor and before magnitude of current through the first inductor falls to zero, forward biasing the second inductor.

Claim (Index 17):
The multi-phase DC-to-DC converter of  claim 12 , further comprising:\n a third inductor magnetically coupled to each of the first and second inductors, wherein the third inductor is more strongly magnetically coupled to the second inductor than to the first inductor; a fourth inductor magnetically coupled to each of the first, second, and third inductors, wherein the fourth inductor is more strongly magnetically coupled to each of the first and third inductors than to the second inductor; a third switching circuit electrically connected to the third inductor; and a fourth switching circuit electrically connected to the fourth inductor; wherein the controller is further configured to:\n cause the third switching circuit to forward bias the third inductor, while causing the first switching circuit to reverse bias the first inductor but before causing the second switching circuit to forward bias the second inductor, and \n cause the fourth switching circuit to forward bias the fourth inductor while causing the second switching circuit to forward bias the second inductor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84615
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13709778', '15126384', '11131761', '11945197', '11756972']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8133674211927328
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4880707657755245
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.780837755651012
- Mean Citation Score: 219.44217000000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.65765
- Similarity Product: 180.49434164721072

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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