PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868232
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["327", "175000"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for maintaining a duty cycle error counter. An example apparatus may a duty cycle detect circuit configured to receive a clock signal and to detect a duty cycle error of the clock signal. The duty cycle detect error includes a counter configured to store a count value indicating the duty cycle error using Gray code. The counter is adjusted in response to detection of non-zero duty cycle error, and the counter is configured to convert the count value from Gray code to binary code as a binary count value. The duty cycle detect circuit is further configured to provide a duty cycle error signal based on the binary count value. The example apparatus further comprising a duty cycle correction circuit configured to adjust a duty cycle of the clock signal based on the duty cycle error signal.

Claim (Index 16):
A method comprising:\n receiving a clock signal; detecting a duty cycle error of the clock signal; storing a count value indicating the duty cycle error using Gray code; in response to detecting a non-zero duty cycle error, adjusting the count value by a step size; converting the count value from Gray code to binary code to provide a binary count value; providing a duty cycle error signal based on the binary count value; and adjusting a duty cycle of the clock signal based on the duty cycle error signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88235
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13870893', '15812797', '14955051', '11360093', '13451131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7645142354545641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4474413957023612
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7328069514793438
- Mean Citation Score: 151.31371600000003
- Max Citation Score: 156.36375
- Similarity Product: 131.76759304068986

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

Dataset: test