PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968981
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["323", "293000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for improving efficiency of a switched-capacitor voltage regulator are provided. In an example, a switched-capacitor voltage regulator can include a switched-capacitor network having multiple gain configurations, a clock configured to switch capacitors of the switched-capacitor network between a charge state and a discharge state to provide a scaled output voltage, and a controller configured to select a capacitor configuration associated with a gain of the multiple gain configurations to provide the scaled output voltage within a desired output voltage range while continuously switching the capacitor configuration, and to interrupt switching of the capacitor configuration to permit an output voltage of the switched-capacitor voltage regulator to fall below the scaled output voltage but to remain above a lower limit of the desired output voltage range to save power by reducing losses due to the switching.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein the interrupting the capacitor configuration includes enabling switching of the switched-capacitor voltage regulator based on a clock signal of a clock of the switched-capacitor regulator in response to the output voltage level meeting or falling below a second value representative of the lower limit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20312
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11967714', '12059975', '12165492', '15346618', '14469975']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7326125033505997
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4706868202905191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7064199350445917
- Mean Citation Score: 161.55926399999996
- Max Citation Score: 185.10785
- Similarity Product: 142.687518029657

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

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