PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
Techniques and mechanisms for mitigating an overshoot of a supply voltage provided with a voltage regulator (VR). In an embodiment, buck converter functionality of a VR is provided with first circuitry comprising a first inductor and first switch circuits variously coupled thereto. Second circuitry of the VR comprises a second inductor and second switch circuits variously coupled thereto. In response to an indication of a voltage overshoot condition, respective states of the first switch circuits and the second switch circuits are configured to enable a conductive path for dissipating energy with the first inductor, the second inductor, and various ones of the first switch circuits and the second switch circuits. In another embodiment, mitigating the voltage overshoot condition comprises alternately toggling between two different configurations of the second switch circuits.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus to provide a supply voltage, the apparatus comprising:\n a voltage regulator (VR) circuit to receive a first voltage via a first node and, based on the first voltage, to provide a second voltage to a load circuit via a second node, the VR circuit comprising inductors L 1  and L 2 , and switch circuits S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , and S 4 , the inductors L 1  and L 2  coupled to the first node via switch circuits S 1  and S 3 , respectively, wherein the second node is coupled to switch circuits S 1  and S 3  via inductors L 1  and L 2 , respectively, wherein inductors L 1  and L 2  are further coupled to a third node via switch circuits S 2  and S 4 , respectively, the third node coupled to provide a reference potential; and a controller circuit coupled to the VR, wherein, in response to a voltage overshoot condition, the controller circuit is to: configure an off-state of switch circuit S 1 ; and enable a current path between inductor L 1  and one of first node or the third node via the second node and inductor L 2 , wherein the controller circuit to enable the current path in response to the voltage overshoot condition comprises the controller circuit to signal the VR circuit to provide respective on-states of switch circuit S 2  and one of switch circuits S 3  or S 4 , wherein the respective on-states of the switch circuit S 2  and the one of switch circuits S 3  or S 4  are concurrent with each other and with the off-state of switch circuit S 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36667
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14580418', '14757874', '13946886', '15627082', '12904742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7003814993424745
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4574934671262853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6760926961208557
- Mean Citation Score: 135.79408800000002
- Max Citation Score: 144.16862
- Similarity Product: 109.47567067430258

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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