PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051762
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
A multiphase voltage regulator includes a plurality of power stages, a plurality of current sense circuits, a controller and a current sense interface running between the controller and one or more of the current sense circuits. The current sense interface includes a separate line for each current sense circuit coupled to the current sense interface and which is configured to support single-ended or differential current sense. The regulator also includes a plurality of pullup circuits, each of which is connected to one of the current sense interface lines and has a higher impedance than the line to which it is connected. A fault detection circuit of the controller determines if an individual one of the current sense interface lines has an open fault, based on the pullup circuit connected to the line with the open fault pulling up the voltage on the line by more than a predetermined amount.

Claim (Index 1):
A multiphase voltage regulator, comprising:\n a plurality of power stages, each of which is configured to deliver a phase current to a load; a plurality of current sense circuits, each of which is configured to provide a current sense signal representative of the phase current delivered to the load by the power stage coupled to the current sense circuit; a controller configured to control the plurality of power stages to regulate an output voltage provided to the load, based at least partly on the current sense signals provided by the current sense circuits; a current sense interface running between the controller and one or more of the current sense circuits, the current sense interface comprising a separate line for each current sense circuit coupled to the current sense interface and which is configured to support single-ended or differential current sense; and a plurality of pullup circuits, each of which is connected to one of the current sense interface lines and has a higher impedance than the line to which the pullup circuit is connected, wherein the controller comprises a fault detection circuit configured to determine if an individual one of the current sense interface lines has an open fault, based on the pullup circuit connected to the line with the open fault pulling up the voltage on the line by more than a predetermined amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 86.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14287978', '13346625', '13167674', '14841669', '13347621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5121556229569059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4776608634183872
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.508706147003054
- Mean Citation Score: 176.582474
- Max Citation Score: 178.24469
- Similarity Product: 127.45258748336552

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

Dataset: test