PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["323", "285000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes a power conversion circuit including an inductor and configured to convert an input voltage to an output voltage in accordance with at least one switching signal. The circuit further includes a first current sense circuit configured to generate a current sense signal that represents an inductor current, a voltage sense circuit configured to generate a voltage sense signal that represents the output voltage, and a switching controller including an error amplifier configured to generate an error signal representing the difference between a reference voltage and the voltage sense signal. The switching controller further includes an oscillator circuit configured to generate, for pulse frequency modulation (PFM) operation of the power conversion circuit, the switching signal as a sequence of pulses with a pulse repetition frequency that depends on the error signal and the current sense signal.

Claim (Index 13):
The circuit of  claim 1 ,\n wherein the power conversion circuit includes a series circuit of a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected between an input terminal configured to receive the input voltage and a further terminal operably supplied with a reference potential, and wherein a common circuit node of the high-side switch and the low-side switch is coupled with the inductor, so that the inductor current is either sourced via the high-side switch or the low-side switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59322
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16192672', '13037014', '14069637', '13852866', '14253520']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7658870814405244
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5138793158237174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7406863048788438
- Mean Citation Score: 266.583792
- Max Citation Score: 323.05328
- Similarity Product: 252.00457870666503

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

Dataset: test