PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009109
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "273000"]

Abstract:
A method for voltage regulation includes reducing a power consumption of a voltage regulator during an IDLE phase, by disabling a feedback loop configured to regulate an internal voltage to a multiple of a reference voltage in response to the voltage regulator receiving a digital signal from a digital circuit. The internal voltage is proportional to an external voltage supplied to the digital circuit. A regulated accuracy of the external voltage is increased during a MEASUREMENT phase by enabling the feedback loop in response to the voltage regulator receiving the digital signal from the digital circuit.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for voltage regulation comprising:\n a START-UP phase comprising, activating an external Power On Reset (POR), the external POR holding a digital circuit in a reset state, the digital circuit powered by the voltage regulator and the voltage regulator controlled by a first digital signal from the digital circuit, stabilizing a bandgap reference while the external POR is active, the bandgap reference providing a reference voltage, activating an internal POR after the bandgap reference is stable, the internal POR holding the digital circuit in the reset state, disabling the internal POR after stabilizing a feedback loop, the feedback loop providing an internal voltage regulated to the reference voltage, and an external voltage proportional to the internal voltage; an IDLE phase comprising, storing an analog value determining the external voltage in response to a second digital signal from the digital circuit, storing a state of the internal POR in response to the second digital signal, disabling the feedback loop by disabling the bandgap reference, in response to the first digital signal; and a MEASUREMENT phase comprising, stabilizing the feedback loop by enabling the bandgap reference, in response to the first digital signal, disabling the internal POR after the feedback loop is stable, and restoring the analog value and restoring the state of the internal POR.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17391
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14457129', '13490115', '14318699', '15232373', '12367242']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7182477430491199
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4575156644155415
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.692174535185762
- Mean Citation Score: 165.12769199999997
- Max Citation Score: 173.31212
- Similarity Product: 141.22907852935313

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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