PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16364239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["327", "225000"]

Abstract:
A comparator includes a pair of back-to-back negative-AND (NAND) gates and a delay circuit coupled to the pair of back-to-back NAND gates. The delay circuit is configured to modulate a triggering clock signal by an input voltage to generate a delayed clock signal with a delay that is based on the input voltage. Each of the pair of back-to-back NAND gates is configured to receive the delayed clock signal and generate a comparator output signal based on the delayed clock signal.

Claim (Index 10):
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) comprising:\n a comparator, the comparator comprising: a pair of back-to-back negative-AND (NAND) gates; and a delay circuit coupled to the pair of back-to-back NAND gates, the delay circuit configured to modulate a triggering clock signal by an input voltage to generate a delayed clock signal with a delay that is based on the input voltage,\n wherein each of the pair of back-to-back NAND gates is configured to receive the delayed clock signal and generate a comparator output signal based on the delayed clock signal; \n wherein the input voltage is a differential signal that includes a positive input signal and a negative input signal; \n wherein the delay circuit is further configured to receive a differential reference signal that includes a positive reference signal and a negative reference signal; \n wherein the delay circuit includes: \n a first transistor configured to receive the positive input signal; a second transistor in parallel with the first transistor, the second transistor configured to receive the negative reference signal; a third transistor configured to receive the negative input signal; and a fourth transistor in parallel with the third transistor, the fourth transistor configured to receive the positive reference signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20513
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15945165', '15884813', '15883623', '16211259', '15864090']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7560274231361861
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5756174337385364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7379864241964211
- Mean Citation Score: 267.002016
- Max Citation Score: 466.54208
- Similarity Product: 448.6666601083374

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

Dataset: test