PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["327", "175000"]

Abstract:
In an embodiment, a PWM modulation circuit includes a first circuit block configured to receive a square wave input signal and produce from the square wave input signal a triangular wave signal, a second circuit block configured to receive a modulating signal and produce a PWM signal by comparing the modulating signal with a carrier signal, a switching circuit block coupled between the first circuit block and the second circuit block and sensitive to reference signals having upper and lower reference values and selectively switchable between a carrier transfer setting in which the switching circuit block couples the first circuit block to the second circuit block to transfer the triangular wave signal as the carrier signal, and one or more carrier forcing settings for optimizing or inhibiting pulse skipping in the PWM signal, wherein the switching circuit block forces the carrier signal to the upper and lower reference values, respectively.

Claim (Index 2):
The circuit of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the modulating signal comprises a modulating signal swing between highest and lowest modulating signal values; the upper and lower reference values comprise first upper and first lower reference values lying within the modulating signal swing, and second upper and second lower reference values lying outside the modulating signal swing; and the carrier forcing setting comprises:\n a first carrier forcing setting in which the switching circuit block applies to the second circuit block the reference signals with the first upper and first lower reference values, and \n a second carrier forcing setting in which the switching circuit block applies to the second circuit block the reference signals with the second upper and second lower reference values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57377
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12172406', '11115550', '15577215', '15345926', '12448827']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.765777026168032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4822669575523709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7374260193064659
- Mean Citation Score: 144.44997
- Max Citation Score: 149.33133999999995
- Similarity Product: 95.91860972660896

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

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