PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995008
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["330", "278000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to electrical circuits. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a variable gain amplifier (VGA) device that includes a low-gain tuning section and a high-gain tuning section. The low-gain tuning section includes both resistor and transistor elements. The high-gain tuning section includes a transistor element and is activated when an output gain is greater than a predetermined threshold level. There are other embodiments as well.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for operating a variable-gain amplifier in a system, the method comprising:\n in the system: receiving an input gain signal; determining a first gain control value based on the input gain signal; determining a second gain control value, the second gain control value being at a high-gain setting if the input gain signal is greater than a threshold level; converting the first gain control value to a first gain control signal, the first gain control value including a DAC code, the first gain control signal including an analog tuning voltage; generating a first gain control signal based on the first gain control value; generating a second gain control signal based on the second gain control value; receiving a first input signal and a second input signal; providing a first tuning section including a first transistor and a first resistor; providing a second tuning section including a second transistor; adjusting a first impedance value of the first tuning section using the first gain control signal; adjusting a second impedance value of the second tuning section using the second gain control signal; and providing a first output signal, the first output signal being characterized by a gain level associated with the input gain signal, the first output signal being based at least on the first impedance value and the second impedance value; and using the first output signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58
- Patent Class: 330.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15418487', '15597074', '15719043', '15272828', '14018267']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7514381142992378
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5425195602700961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7305462588963236
- Mean Citation Score: 264.72774
- Max Citation Score: 370.78775
- Similarity Product: 344.45568318897483

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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