PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941496
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["323", "282000"]

Abstract:
Multiphase voltage regulator systems are disclosed which include parallel signal pathways that functionally cooperate to provide an analog output signal at a constant, or substantially constant, voltage. The parallel signal pathways generate energy storage element charging signals to charge and/or discharge energy storage elements. Energy provided by discharging energy storage elements is thereafter combined to provide the analog output signal. Moreover, the parallel signal pathways compare one of the energy storage element charging signals with a reference input signal to provide a global error correction signal representing a difference, or error, between the reference input signal and the analog output signal. The parallel signal pathways thereafter adjust the energy storage element charging signals in accordance with the global error correction signal to lessen this difference or error. In some situations, manufacturing variations and/or misalignment tolerances present within the parallel signal pathways can cause mismatches between the parallel signal pathways. In these situations, the parallel signal pathways compare remaining energy storage element charging signals to the global error correction signal to provide local error correction signals to quantify these mismatches. Thereafter, the parallel signal pathways adjust the remaining energy storage element charging signals in accordance with the one or more local error correction signals to compensate for these mismatches.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein the providing the plurality of energy storage element charging signals comprises:\n providing a first energy storage element charging signal from among the plurality of energy storage element charging signals at a first logical level to charge a first energy storage element from among the plurality of energy storage elements in based on a first switching clock signal from among the plurality switching clock signals in response to the reference pathway regulation signal being at the first logical level; and providing the first energy storage element charging signal at a second logical level to discharge the first energy storage element based on the first switching clock signal in response to the reference pathway regulation signal being at the second logical level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11130539', '14323870', '14454134', '13534753', '13836165']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7303482892158585
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4537279121125515
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7026862515055278
- Mean Citation Score: 143.360274
- Max Citation Score: 145.9998
- Similarity Product: 116.2798291204333

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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