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 6):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n forward biasing a third inductor while forward biasing the second inductor, wherein the third inductor is magnetically coupled to each of the first and second inductors and the third inductor is more strongly magnetically coupled to the second inductor than to the first inductor; and while reverse biasing the first inductor but before forward biasing the second and third inductors, forward biasing a fourth inductor, wherein the fourth inductor is magnetically coupled to each of the first, second, and third inductors and the fourth inductor is more strongly magnetically coupled to the third inductor than to each of the first and second inductors, such that a magnitude of current flowing through the fourth inductor ramps up.

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): 0.8125990657876968
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4935710084917047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7806962600580976
- Mean Citation Score: 219.44217000000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.65765
- Similarity Product: 167.81017163570522

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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