PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112948
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["327", "208000"]

Abstract:
A level-shifter circuit operates to shift an input signal referenced to a first set supply voltages to generate an output signal referenced to a second set of supply voltages. The output signal from the level-shifter circuit is latched by a latching circuit. A logic gate has a first input configured to receive the input signal, a second input configured to receive a feedback signal and an output coupled to a input of the level shifting circuit. A feedback circuit has a first input configured to receive the output signal, a second input configured to receive the input signal and an output configured to generate the feedback signal. The feedback circuit operates to sense an uncontrolled switching event of the output signal occurring in the absence of a switching of the input signal and apply, in response thereto, the feedback signal to cancel the uncontrolled switching event.

Claim (Index 1):
A circuit, including:\n a first circuit powered from a first set of a supply node and a ground, the first circuit including at least one first switching element configured for receiving a switching input signal, a second circuit powered from a second set of a supply node and a ground, wherein the second circuit section includes:\n i) at least one second switching element coupled to the at least one first switching element in the first circuit section, the at least one second switching element in the second circuit section configured for switching as a result of switching of the at least one first switching element in the first circuit section, and \n ii) a latch circuit block driven by the at least one second switching element and having at least one latch output, wherein switching of the at least one latch output is controlled by switching of the at least one second switching element in the second circuit section to provide at least one latch output level-shifted replica of the switching input signal applied to the at least one first switching element in the first circuit section, and \n a feedback network between the at least one latch output and the at least one first switching element in the first circuit section, the feedback network configured for sensing uncontrolled switching events of the at least one latch output occurring in the absence of switching of at least one first switching element in the first circuit section and for applying to the at least one first switching element in the first circuit section a forced switching signal to cancel out the uncontrolled switching events at the at least one latch output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.16327
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14187442', '12944976', '15926951', '14742002', '12112885']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7919483911041404
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4803773852430223
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7607912905180286
- Mean Citation Score: 175.24582199999998
- Max Citation Score: 181.93869
- Similarity Product: 130.7245244983882

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test