PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896355
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "340000"]

Abstract:
A continuous-time sampler has series-connected delay lines with intermediate output taps between the delay lines. Signal from an output tap can be buffered by an optional voltage buffer for performance. A corresponding controlled switch is provided with each output tap to connect the output tap to an output of the continuous-time sampler. The delay lines store a continuous-time input signal waveform within the propagation delays. Controlling the switches corresponding to the output taps with pulses that match the propagation delays can yield a same input signal value at the output. The continuous-time sampler effectively “holds” or provides the input signal value at the output for further processing without requiring switched-capacitor circuits that sample the input signal value onto some capacitor. In some cases, the continuous-time sampler can be a recursively-connected delay line. The continuous-time sampler can be used as the front end sampler in a variety of analog-to-digital converters.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for sampling, comprising:\n capturing time-shifted waveforms of a continuous-time input signal received at an input by one or more recursively-connected delay lines; and evaluating, at a plurality of clock edges at an output, a same signal value from the time-shifted waveforms of the continuous-time input signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92771
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15794367', '14194107', '11630753', '15815968', '15865742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4675629148382609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4845539968112197
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4692620230355567
- Mean Citation Score: 174.852384
- Max Citation Score: 184.93279
- Similarity Product: 129.33465353429378

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