PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287715
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["341", "118000"]

Abstract:
An analog to digital converter comprising: a plurality of voltage generators, each voltage generator having a control input and being capable of generating an output whose voltage is dependent on a signal applied to the control input; a comparison stage arranged to compare the input signal with one or more outputs of the voltage generators and generate one or more comparator outputs indicative of the result(s) of the comparison(s); and a controller arranged to receive the comparator outputs, the controller being configured to: (i) signal the control inputs of a number V 1  of the voltage generators, and estimate a number B 1  of bits of the digital representation; and subsequently (ii) signal the control input(s) of a number V 2  of the voltage generators, and estimate a number B 2  of bits of the digital representation; wherein V 2  is less than V 1 .

Claim (Index 13):
An analogue to digital converter as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to set the or each voltage generator employed in step (i) and not in step (ii) in a quiescent state during step (ii).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52239
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15048516', '15048597', '13767233', '11519201', '13363255']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6073690984715393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5111477644596336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5977469650703487
- Mean Citation Score: 212.53873200000004
- Max Citation Score: 237.81508
- Similarity Product: 153.94432213388205

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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