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 22):
A multi-phase DC-to-DC converter, comprising:\n a plurality of magnetically coupled inductors; a respective switching circuit electrically connected to each of the plurality of inductors; and a controller configured to control the respective switching circuits electrically connected to each of the plurality of inductors such that at least two of the plurality of inductors are forward biased non-simultaneously during each switching period, during discontinuous conduction mode operation of the multi-phase DC-to-DC converter.

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): 0.8142727764204785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815720798648422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7810027067649149
- Mean Citation Score: 219.44217000000003
- Max Citation Score: 238.65765
- Similarity Product: 195.4899488809884

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

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