PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868551
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["331", "057000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for generating an oscillating signal using a ring oscillator circuit. One example ring oscillator circuit generally includes one or more delay elements coupled in series, wherein an output of a last one of the delay elements is coupled to an input of an initial one of the delay elements, and a plurality of resistive elements selectively coupled to a tail node of at least a first one of the delay elements, the resistive elements being configured to coarse-tune a frequency of an oscillating signal generated by the ring oscillator circuit. For certain aspects, the ring oscillator circuit further includes a plurality of tunable capacitive elements coupled to an output node of at least a second one of the delay elements, the tunable capacitive elements being configured to fine-tune the frequency of the oscillating signal.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising coupling a second set of the plurality of resistive elements to the tail node to adjust the frequency of the oscillating signal, wherein at least one of the plurality of resistive elements belongs to the first set, but not to the second set.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45161
- Patent Class: 331.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638183', '15060198', '15609951', '13030843', '12686686']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7220450980911907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914970346527499
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6989902917473466
- Mean Citation Score: 209.718842
- Max Citation Score: 224.78784
- Similarity Product: 175.00220166801452

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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