PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16261945
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["341", "163000"]

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter includes an input terminal, a digital-to-analog converter, a comparator, and successive approximation circuitry. The input terminal is configured to receive a multi-bit digital threshold value from circuitry external to the analog-to-digital converter. The successive approximation circuitry is coupled to the comparator and the digital-to-analog converter. The successive approximation circuitry is configured to operate in a comparison mode and a conversion mode, and to provide the multi-bit digital threshold value to the digital-to-analog converter while operating in the comparison mode. The comparator is coupled to the digital-to-analog converter and the successive approximation circuity. The comparator is configured to output a signal that indicates whether an analog input signal exceeds an analog threshold signal corresponding to the multi-bit digital threshold value.

Claim (Index 2):
The analog-to-digital converter of  claim 1 , wherein the digital-to-analog converter is a capacitive digital-to-analog converter comprising:\n a plurality of capacitors; and a plurality of switches coupled to each of the capacitors; and wherein the successive approximation circuitry is configured to set the switches according to bits of the multi-bit digital threshold value while operating in the comparison mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86957
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15874100', '13050483', '13763532', '14559178', '15253348']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6085783983499613
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5822802068354611
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6059485791985113
- Mean Citation Score: 327.031884
- Max Citation Score: 451.4284
- Similarity Product: 447.453717884016

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

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