PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968981
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["323", "293000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for improving efficiency of a switched-capacitor voltage regulator are provided. In an example, a switched-capacitor voltage regulator can include a switched-capacitor network having multiple gain configurations, a clock configured to switch capacitors of the switched-capacitor network between a charge state and a discharge state to provide a scaled output voltage, and a controller configured to select a capacitor configuration associated with a gain of the multiple gain configurations to provide the scaled output voltage within a desired output voltage range while continuously switching the capacitor configuration, and to interrupt switching of the capacitor configuration to permit an output voltage of the switched-capacitor voltage regulator to fall below the scaled output voltage but to remain above a lower limit of the desired output voltage range to save power by reducing losses due to the switching.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , wherein the determining the scale factor includes inhibiting switching of the switched capacitor array in response to the output voltage settling between the first high voltage limit and the second high voltage limit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20312
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11967714', '12059975', '12165492', '15346618', '14469975']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7297959445993326
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4846066798389779
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7052770181232971
- Mean Citation Score: 161.55926399999996
- Max Citation Score: 185.10785
- Similarity Product: 124.8963086032212

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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