PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909126
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["327", "434000"]

Abstract:
A circuit for operating a transistor device that acts as a switch is presented. The circuit includes the transistor device and a control circuit coupled to a gate of the transistor device. The control circuit is adapted to selectively apply at least a first voltage level, a second voltage level, and a third voltage level to the gate of the transistor device, wherein the first, second, and third voltage levels are distinct voltage levels. The disclosure further relates to a method of operating a transistor device that acts as a switch. The proposed circuit provides additional gate voltages, by contrast to conventional two-level gate drivers. By appropriate choice of the additional gate voltages, reverse mode conductance losses of the transistor device can be reduced and/or to the Safe Operating Area (SOA) of the transistor device can be improved.

Claim (Index 24):
The method according to  claim 23 , wherein the third voltage level is chosen between the first and second voltage levels such that the gate-source voltage of the transistor device is larger than the threshold voltage of the transistor device, when the third voltage level is applied to the gate of the transistor device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21739
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10402472', '13463961', '14222992', '14708627', '14215243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7737258432256776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763926097908033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7439925198821902
- Mean Citation Score: 174.27194400000005
- Max Citation Score: 179.46783
- Similarity Product: 129.83109254425406

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

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