PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16254221
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["363", "132000"]

Abstract:
A method for suppressing voltage overshoot at an output of a voltage regulator is disclosed. The voltage regulator includes at least one channel having a first set of (high-side) transistors and a second set of (low-side) transistors. In implementations of the method, an output voltage at an output of at least one channel of a voltage regulator is detected and compared with a reference voltage. A rate of change associated with the output voltage is also determined and compared with a threshold rate of change. When the output voltage is greater than the reference voltage and the rate of change is greater than the threshold rate of change, a resistance value associated with the second set of transistors is increased from a first resistance value to a second resistance value to prevent the output voltage from overshooting and/or to suppress an output voltage overshoot.

Claim (Index 30):
A system for output voltage overshoot suppression, comprising:\n a detector configured to detect whether an output voltage for at least one channel of a voltage regulator is greater than a reference voltage, the at least one channel including an inductor having a first end and a second end, the first end coupled to a first set of transistors between the inductor and a voltage source, the first end also coupled to a second set of transistors between the inductor and an electrical ground, the second end coupled to a capacitor at an output of the at least one channel; and a controller communicatively coupled with the detector, the controller configured to:\n determine a rate of change associated with the output voltage, \n determine whether the rate of change is greater than a threshold rate of change, and \n increase a resistance value associated with the second set of transistors from a first resistance value to a second resistance value when the output voltage is greater than the reference voltage and the rate of change is greater than a the threshold rate of change.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15711191', '12108435', '12124953', '12629397', '15957900']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.765070306146171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.547551968529635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7433184723845174
- Mean Citation Score: 215.63567000000003
- Max Citation Score: 393.12082
- Similarity Product: 376.2596991860794

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

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