PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983895
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["323", "299000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for control of power switches in a USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) system are described herein. In an example embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a programmable gate control circuit coupled to a provider field effect transistor (FET) and a consumer FET to provide control signals to the provider and consumer FETs in response to system conditions and application requirements of the USB-PD system. A pulldown current control circuit may provide additional control to slew rate for the slow turn-ON of provider and consumer FETs.

Claim (Index 1):
A universal serial bus (USB) power delivery circuit comprising:\n a provider field effect transistor (FET) comprising:\n a source coupled to a first terminal, \n a drain coupled to a second terminal, and \n a control terminal; \n a gate driver coupled to the control terminal of the provider FET for providing control signals to the control terminal, wherein the gate driver is programmable by control logic to provide control signals in response to system conditions, the control signals selected from a predetermined set of control signals corresponding to predetermined performance of the provider FET.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67273
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15983596', '15200538', '14222852', '15872109', '15092269']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7048930548128569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4827324543090702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6826769947624783
- Mean Citation Score: 170.682052
- Max Citation Score: 198.91151
- Similarity Product: 141.25800541759966

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

Dataset: test