PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946793
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["323", "265000"]

Abstract:
A circuit for generating an output voltage, and regulating the output voltage to a target voltage, is described. The circuit comprises a pass device coupled between an input voltage level and an output voltage level, an error amplifier stage configured to generate a first control voltage on the basis of a reference voltage and the output voltage, a buffer stage configured to generate a drive signal for the pass device on the basis of the first control voltage, and a tracking circuit configured to track a voltage across the pass device and to generate a second control voltage on the basis of the voltage across the pass device. The buffer stage comprises a variable resistance element, for limiting a current flowing through the buffer stage on the basis of the second control voltage.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 ,\n wherein the pass device, the first transistor, the third transistor, and the fourth transistor comprise PMOS transistors and the second transistor comprises an NMOS transistor; the first, second, and fourth transistors are coupled in series between an input voltage level and ground; and the third transistor and the current source are coupled in series between the drain terminal of the pass device and ground.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11176609', '11725270', '11038041', '14840257', '11683855']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7266562229638092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4984192249974583
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7038325231671742
- Mean Citation Score: 234.680632
- Max Citation Score: 237.62178
- Similarity Product: 172.13240629060508

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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