PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946793
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["323", "265000"]

Abstract:
A circuit for generating an output voltage, and regulating the output voltage to a target voltage, is described. The circuit comprises a pass device coupled between an input voltage level and an output voltage level, an error amplifier stage configured to generate a first control voltage on the basis of a reference voltage and the output voltage, a buffer stage configured to generate a drive signal for the pass device on the basis of the first control voltage, and a tracking circuit configured to track a voltage across the pass device and to generate a second control voltage on the basis of the voltage across the pass device. The buffer stage comprises a variable resistance element, for limiting a current flowing through the buffer stage on the basis of the second control voltage.

Claim (Index 9):
The circuit of  claim 7 , wherein the buffer stage further comprises a second circuit branch comprising a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, and a seventh transistor coupled in series;\n wherein the circuit branch further comprises a second tracking circuit for tracking a voltage across the second transistor and for generating a third control voltage on the basis of the voltage across the second transistor; wherein the fifth transistor comprises a PMOS transistor, and is configured to form a current mirror with the second transistor; wherein the sixth transistor comprises an NMOS transistor, and a second voltage, configured to depend on the first control voltage, is configured to supply a gate terminal of the sixth transistor; and wherein the seventh transistor comprises a PMOS transistor, and a third control voltage is configured to supply a gate terminal of the seventh transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11176609', '11725270', '11038041', '14840257', '11683855']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7035627964035834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901739586989695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6822239126331221
- Mean Citation Score: 234.680632
- Max Citation Score: 237.62178
- Similarity Product: 185.6810215233636

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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