PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910939
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "350000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatus for improving ESD performance and switching time for semiconductor devices including metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field effect transistors (FETs), and particularly to MOSFETs fabricated on Semiconductor-On-Insulator (“SOI”) and Silicon-On-Sapphire (“SOS”) substrates.

Claim (Index 11):
An integrated circuit including:\n (a) a plurality of stacked field effect transistors (FET), each FET including:\n (1) a gate, a drain, a source, and a body; and \n (2) a gate resistor series connected to the gate of such FET; and \n (b) a plurality of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection electronic circuits, each ESD protection electronic circuit corresponding to one of the plurality of FETs and each including:\n (1) a selectable resistor coupled in series between a common control terminal for the corresponding one of the plurality of FETs and the gate resistor of the corresponding one of the plurality of FETs; and \n (2) a bypass module coupled in parallel with the selectable resistor and having a control signal input for receiving a control signal, the bypass module being configured to respond to the control signal to (A) in a bypass mode, conduct signals applied to the coupled common control terminal through the bypass module and around the selectable resistor, and (B) in a protection mode, cause signals applied to the coupled common control terminal to be conducted through the selectable resistor, wherein in the bypass mode, the bypass module presents no significant added resistance, relative to the gate resistor of the corresponding one of the plurality of FETs, to signals applied to the coupled common control terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37838
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15495819', '14521378', '11881816', '13053211', '14845154']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.902648729373801
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5620187004824333
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8685857264846643
- Mean Citation Score: 251.848228
- Max Citation Score: 444.33496
- Similarity Product: 361.8281820650769

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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