PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods are provided for controlling dead-time of a direct current to direct current (DC-DC) converter. A control circuit includes a first transistor having a source/drain terminal coupled to an output voltage of the DC-DC converter configured to provide current based on the output voltage. The control circuit also includes a digital up/down counter having an output terminal electrically coupled to an input terminal of a delay cell of the DC-DC converter. A current sensing circuit of the control circuit is electrically coupled to an input terminal of the digital up/down counter configured to receive the current and drive the digital up/down counter based on the current.

Claim (Index 20):
A direct current to direct current (DC-DC) circuit comprising:\n one or more delay cells; a control circuit comprising a current sensing circuit having at least two transistors electrically coupled together, the control circuit further comprising an output electrically coupled to an input of the one or more delay cells configured to control the one or more delay cells; and a high side circuit and a low side circuit coupled to the one or more delay cells and configured to provide an output voltage, the high side circuit and the low side circuit each circuit comprising:\n a logic gate; \n one or more inverters; and \n a transistor, \n wherein the logic gate, the one or more inverters, and the transistor are electrically coupled together in series.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32653
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14634922', '12016617', '12551688', '15363188', '13161526']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7127679382603792
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4631036893553595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6878015133698773
- Mean Citation Score: 164.213234
- Max Citation Score: 175.7548
- Similarity Product: 137.98754186778064

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

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