PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200150
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["307", "082000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure shows ways to use multiple “integrated voltage regulator (IVR) units” to offer IVRs that can cover a wide range of specifications without having to design separate IVRs for different specifications. Instead of designing separate IVRs and paying for separate mask sets for IVRs targeting different specifications (e.g., different design and mask sets for 1 A IVR, 5 A IVR), the disclosed embodiments present ways to design and fabricate large numbers of the same unit IVRs (e.g., 1 A IVR) and decide how many of them to use post-fabrication to deliver different current specifications (e.g., use five 1 A unit IVRs for 5 A, use ten 1 A unit IVRs for 10 A). These disclosed embodiments reduce the mask cost of fabricating IVRs for different specifications and reduce design time by focusing on a single unit IVR.

Claim (Index 1):
A voltage regulator comprising:\n an input voltage terminal; an output voltage terminal; a ground terminal; and a plurality of unit integrated voltage regulators (IVRs), wherein each of the plurality of unit IVRs comprises an IVR input voltage terminal, an IVR output voltage terminal, and an IVR ground terminal, wherein the input voltage terminal of each of the plurality of unit IVRs is electrically connected to the input voltage terminal of the voltage regulator, wherein the output voltage terminal of each of the plurality of unit IVRs is electrically connected to the output voltage terminal of the voltage regulator, wherein the ground terminal of each of the plurality of unit IVRs is electrically connected to the ground terminal of the voltage regulator; and wherein each of the plurality of unit IVRs has substantially identical performance characteristics.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16438
- Patent Class: 307.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14332585', '14250990', '14250970', '15487659', '15463613']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8093084950191662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5433143308566957
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7827090786029192
- Mean Citation Score: 237.98226
- Max Citation Score: 424.9453
- Similarity Product: 309.6764517658948

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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