PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150417
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["323", "282000"]

Abstract:
A voltage driver includes a voltage input, a voltage regulation controller including an on/off input. The voltage regulation controller is configured to control a switching converter in a first mode, a second mode, and at least one additional mode. The switching converter is configured to operate as an open pass switch in the first mode, is configured to operate as a closed pass switch in the second mode, and is configured to operate as an overcurrent and overvoltage protection switch in the at least one additional mode. A discrete output driver control and monitoring circuit can be used to control the switching converter. The output driver control and monitoring circuit includes a controller coupled to a communication bus and is configured to provide high level control instructions to the communication bus.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of operating a voltage driver comprising:\n placing the voltage driver in a first mode where a switching converter is a fully open switch by operating the switching converter at a 0% duty cycle; placing the voltage driver in a second mode where the switching converter is a fully closed switch by operating the switching converter at a 100% duty cycle; and placing the voltage driver in a third mode where the switching converter is an overcurrent and overvoltage protection, where the switching converter is a voltage limiter by operating the switching converter at a duty cycle greater than 0% and less than 100%.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66038
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14669519', '14710068', '14376253', '12103993', '12939639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7357368471141956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4949620183168046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7116593642344565
- Mean Citation Score: 203.919384
- Max Citation Score: 265.89478
- Similarity Product: 215.462636872257

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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