PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923620
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["331", "03600C"]

Abstract:
A variable capacitor is provided. The variable capacitor includes a plurality of capacitor segments. The plurality of capacitor segments are connected in parallel within the variable capacitor. When a plurality of candidate capacitances allowable to the variable capacitor according to a connection state of the plurality of capacitor segments connected in parallel are sorted in a magnitude sequence, the plurality of candidate capacitances form a geometric series. The variable capacitor is used for a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO), and the VCO is used for a Phase Locked Loop (PLL).

Claim (Index 1):
A variable capacitor comprising:\n a capacitor bank comprising a plurality of capacitor segments; and a plurality of switch segments configured to control connection states of each of the plurality of capacitor segments, wherein the capacitor bank provides one of candidate capacitances based on the connection states, wherein the connection states are controlled based on a control code, and wherein a capacitance provided from the capacitor bank is linearly changed on a log scale by linearly increasing a value of the control code.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17391
- Patent Class: 331.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13777599', '12801042', '13109157', '11171860', '12259770']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.751306132113314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4858672899024905
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7247622478922316
- Mean Citation Score: 201.026748
- Max Citation Score: 218.66061
- Similarity Product: 173.1436606779742

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

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