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 16):
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; a fourth inductor magnetically coupled to each of the first, second, and third inductors; 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 second switching circuit to forward bias the second inductor, such that a magnitude of current through the third inductor magnetically induces current through the first 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, such that current through the fourth inductor magnetically induces current through the first 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): 0.8147389860564507
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782183336770766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7810869208185133
- Mean Citation Score: 219.44217000000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.65765
- Similarity Product: 203.23392504295705

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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