PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878020
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["327", "108000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure describes a gate driver with voltage boosting capabilities. In some embodiments, the gate driver may comprise a charge pump that includes capacitor(s) and switch(es). Responsive a logic low input signal, the gate driver may bypass the capacitor(s) to allow the input digital signal to drive the gating signal directly. Conversely, responsive to a logic high input signal, the gate driver may couple the capacitor(s) in series with the input digital signal to generate a boosted gating signal. In some embodiments, the gate driver may comprise an inductor-capacitor resonant circuit to create a doubled output gating signal with respect to the input digital signal. In some embodiments, the resonant gate driver may include an additional voltage boosting capability that can be selectively enabled to compensate for a voltage drop during the signal transfer from the input to the output.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for generating a gating signal, comprising:\n receiving an input signal by a gate driver, the gate driver comprising a charge pump that includes a capacitor and a plurality of switches; responsive to a low value of the input signal, bypassing the capacitor of the charge pump by operating the plurality of switches so as to directly couple the input signal to an output of the gate driver; and responsive to a high value of the input signal, coupling the capacitor of the charge pump in series with the input signal and the output of the gate driver by operating the plurality of switches to generate the gating signal with a boosted value with respect to the input signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34286
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12789351', '13422132', '14972435', '15023417', '09966391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7638516363396671
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4735130436195995
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7348177770676604
- Mean Citation Score: 192.103228
- Max Citation Score: 199.86139
- Similarity Product: 154.1124357382691

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

Dataset: test