PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["363", "140000"]

Abstract:
A method for discontinuous conduction mode operation of a multi-phase DC-to-DC converter includes (a) forward biasing a first inductor being magnetically coupled to a second inductor, (b) reverse biasing the first inductor after forward biasing the first inductor, (c) while reverse biasing the first inductor and before magnitude of current through the first inductor falls to zero, forward biasing the second inductor.

Claim (Index 12):
A multi-phase DC-to-DC converter being configured to operate in at least a discontinuous conduction mode, comprising:\n a first inductor magnetically coupled to a second inductor; a first switching circuit electrically connected to the first inductor; a second switching circuit electrically connected to the second inductor; and a controller being configured to:\n cause the first switching circuit to forward bias the first inductor such that a magnitude of current through the first inductor ramps up, \n cause the first switching circuit to reverse bias the first inductor after forward biasing the first inductor, and \n cause the second switching circuit to forward bias the second inductor such that a magnitude of current through the second inductor ramps up, while causing the first switching circuit to reverse bias the first inductor but before the magnitude of current through the first inductor falls to zero.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84615
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13709778', '15126384', '11131761', '11945197', '11756972']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.814656215943715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4788136971758531
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7810719640669288
- Mean Citation Score: 219.44217000000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.65765
- Similarity Product: 201.8589122216016

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

Dataset: test