PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920743
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["330", "253000"]

Abstract:
An amplifier includes a differential input stage, a hysteresis stage, coupled to the differential input stage, a cascode stage coupled to the hysteresis stage, a feedback stage coupled to an output of the cascode stage and configured to provide a feedback signal to the hysteresis stage, and an output stage coupled to the output of the cascode stage. The output stage includes a hysteresis inverter coupled between the output of the cascode stage and the amplifier output.

Claim (Index 19):
An amplifier comprising:\n an output stage configured to provide an amplifier output; an input stage having a differential pair of transistors, wherein a control electrode of a first transistor of the differential pair is coupled to a non-inverting input of the amplifier and a control electrode of a second transistor is coupled to an inverting input of the amplifier, wherein the amplifier output switches states in response to a voltage differential between the inverting input and the non-inverting input; a hysteresis stage coupled to the input stage; a cascode stage coupled to the hysteresis stage, wherein the hysteresis stage is configured to provide hysteresis to an output of the cascode stage, wherein the output stage is coupled to the output of the cascode stage and includes a hysteresis inverter coupled between the output of the cascode stage and the amplifier output; and a feedback stage coupled to the output of the cascode stage and configured to provide a first feedback signal and a second feedback signal to the hysteresis stage;\n wherein the hysteresis inverter of the output stage comprises: \n a third transistor of a first conductivity type and a fourth transistor of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type, the third transistor and the fourth transistor each include a control electrode connected to an input of the hysteresis inverter and a current electrode connected to an output of the hysteresis inverter; \n a fifth transistor of the first conductivity type and a sixth transistor of the second conductivity type, the fifth transistor and the sixth transistor each include a control electrode connected to the output of the hysteresis inverter and a current electrode connected to an input of the hysteresis inverter; \n wherein the fifth transistor is characterized as being weaker than the third transistor and the sixth transistor is characterized as being weaker than the fourth transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.36
- Patent Class: 330.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13827044', '13848403', '14937671', '13224430', '11171957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7707392322178763
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790438380794641
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7415696928040351
- Mean Citation Score: 188.235288
- Max Citation Score: 207.40112
- Similarity Product: 166.5719098071575

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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