PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903690
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["361", "086000"]

Abstract:
A driver and protection circuit for driving a power switch is disclosed. The driver and protection circuit includes a fault detection block configured to detect a discrepancy between a reference drive signal and a measured voltage at a gate of the power switch. The driver and protection circuit also includes a short circuit detection block configured to detect a gate-to-source short circuit or a gate-to-drain short circuit of the power switch. The driver and protection circuit further includes a latch coupled to the fault detection block and the short circuit detection block to selectively turn off an output driver coupled to the gate of the power switch when a fault or a short circuit is detected, and wherein the latch is configured to send a diagnostic signal when the fault or the short circuit is detected.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , wherein the low-side transistor is in an off-state immediately prior to applying the strong low-side turn-off current to the gate of the low-side transistor during the first portion of the dead-zone time period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76471
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14845638', '14798903', '15368449', '14798912', '13875651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8309811031852002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.490195258095691
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7969025186762494
- Mean Citation Score: 148.310204
- Max Citation Score: 195.69958
- Similarity Product: 129.5184315211737

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