PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "238000"]

Abstract:
One aspect of the invention provides a DC-to-DC driver including: a converter including an output configured to drive a load with an output current; and a feedback controller coupled to the converter. The feedback controller includes: a pulse-width modulator configured to output a first pulse-width modulated signal to the converter; a first switching mechanism coupled to the pulse-width modulator; a compensator having an output coupled to the first switching mechanism, the compensator configured to generate a first duty cycle control signal based on a comparison of the output current and a first reference voltage; and a sampler having an input coupled to the output of the compensator and an output coupled to the switching mechanism, the sampler configured to generate a second duty cycle control signal based on the first duty cycle control signal.

Claim (Index 5):
The driver of  claim 2 , further comprising an off-state comparison network comprising a first comparator configured to compare the output current to a reference current, wherein the switch network is configured to switch from operating in the first operating state to operating in the second operating state at least partially based on the comparison and the dimming signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15566564', '14013306', '15853602', '15119700', '15896397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4546728486478317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5041639068407058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4596219544671192
- Mean Citation Score: 251.10045600000004
- Max Citation Score: 262.06085
- Similarity Product: 201.4756982276201

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