PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["327", "536000"]

Abstract:
A power converter can include a charge pump that receives an input voltage and generates a flying rail voltage therefrom and a plurality of buck converters configured to generate regulated voltages from the flying rail voltage. A symmetric controller can have an outer control loop configured to regulate the flying rail voltage and a plurality of inner control loops in communication with the outer control loop and configured to control the plurality of buck converters to generate regulated output voltages responsive to one or more signals received from the outer control loop. The outer loop can be configured to include a hysteretic controller. The outer control loop can be further configured to provide a signal to the plurality of inner control loops indicating whether the inner control loops should control respective buck converters to charge or discharge a capacitor supporting the flying rail voltage.

Claim (Index 20):
A controller for a power converter having a charge pump and a plurality of buck converters, the charge pump being configured to receive an input voltage and generate therefrom a voltage across a flying rail and the plurality of buck converters each being configured to receive the flying rail voltage and generate a regulated output voltage therefrom, the controller comprising:\n an outer control loop; and a plurality of inner control loops in communication with the outer control loop each configured to control a plurality of switches coupled between the flying rails to generate a respective regulated output voltage and responsive to one or more signals received from the outer control loop indicating whether to draw power from or return power to the flying rails.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3871
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13218400', '13316229', '15216640', '15627323', '13948291']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7807336870899074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503314914242598
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7529918098051764
- Mean Citation Score: 289.2450120000001
- Max Citation Score: 298.3875700000001
- Similarity Product: 233.9987553153146

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

Dataset: test