PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957441
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["327", "157000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is disclosed that implements a sampling phase-locked loop. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a phase frequency detector, a relative phase signal determiner, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and a feedback path. The phase frequency detector is configured to produce a phase indication signal based on a reference signal and a feedback signal. The relative phase signal determiner is coupled to the phase frequency detector and includes a sampler. The relative phase signal determiner is configured to determine a relative phase signal based on the phase indication signal using the sampler. The VCO is coupled to the relative phase signal determiner and is configured to produce an oscillating signal based on the relative phase signal. The feedback path is disposed between the VCO and the phase frequency detector. The feedback path is configured to provide the feedback signal to the phase frequency detector using the oscillating signal.

Claim (Index 27):
The apparatus of  claim 26 , wherein:\n the first switch comprises a transistor; the transistor is coupled to the slope generator and configured to receive the plus slope signal, the transistor configured to secure the plus sampled signal from the plus slope signal responsive to a bootstrapped clock signal; and the slope sampler comprises a bootstrap circuit coupled to the transistor and configured to produce the bootstrapped clock signal to bias the transistor responsive to changing voltage levels of the plus slope signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.39583
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15170797', '10131739', '11364534', '11321768', '15172442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.808506083078229
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5144651341750859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7791019881879148
- Mean Citation Score: 281.222508
- Max Citation Score: 308.78058
- Similarity Product: 210.84562991280555

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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