PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960807
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["327", "109000"]

Abstract:
A driver circuit for driving a device circuit, including: a diode-connected transistor having a bulk input coupled to a driver supply voltage, coupled between the driver supply voltage and a positive control node, wherein the driver supply voltage is less than a threshold voltage of the device circuit; a capacitor coupled between the positive control node and a signal input, wherein when an input signal received at the signal input is high, a positive control voltage at the positive control node configured to control an input transistor of the device circuit is higher than the threshold voltage of the device circuit.

Claim (Index 14):
A semiconductor circuit, comprising:\n a device circuit, comprising:\n a first input transistor; \n a second input transistor; and \n a load circuit comprising cross-coupled transistors coupled between a device supply and the first and second input transistors, wherein the cross-coupled transistors have a polarity opposite that of the first and second input transistors; and \n a driver circuit configured to drive the device circuit, comprising:\n a first diode-connected transistor having its bulk input coupled to its drain, and coupled between a driver supply voltage and a first positive control node, wherein the driver supply voltage is less than a threshold voltage of the device circuit; \n a second diode-connected transistor having a bulk input coupled to the driver supply voltage, and coupled between the driver supply voltage and a second positive control node; \n a first capacitor coupled between the first positive control node and a first differential signal input; and \n a second capacitor coupled between the second positive control node and a second differential signal input, \n wherein when a first of a pair of differential input signals received at the first differential signal input is high and a second of the pair of differential input signals received at the second differential signal input is low, a first positive control voltage at the first positive control node configured to control the first input transistor of the device circuit is higher than the threshold voltage of the device circuit, a second positive control voltage at the second positive control node to control the second input transistor is approximately equal to the driver supply voltage minus a threshold voltage of the first diode-connected transistor, a first negative control voltage at a first negative control node configured to control the first input transistor of the device circuit is approximately equal to a driver ground voltage, and a second negative control voltage at a second negative control node configured to control the second input transistor of the device circuit is approximately equal to the driver supply voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59524
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15725263', '14473300', '15947738', '13317858', '13009881']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.75664305050987
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4520441294223115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7261831584011142
- Mean Citation Score: 161.78534
- Max Citation Score: 169.21042
- Similarity Product: 143.41110013720154

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test