PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005145
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["375", "371000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to phase alignment, in particular to phase alignment circuitry (and parts thereof) for example for use in a multiplexer or other circuitry in which data is transmitted from one stage to another. Consideration is given to phase detection and phase rotation. Such circuitry may be implemented as integrated circuitry, for example on an IC chip.

Claim (Index 14):
Phase rotator circuitry, comprising:\n a plurality of input nodes configured to receive respective clock signals of a plurality of time-interleaved candidate clock signals which have different phases from one another; an output node; and selector circuitry operable, based on a selection signal, to adjust which one of the candidate clock signals is selected to be output at the output node via a corresponding path through the selector circuitry, wherein: the selector circuitry comprises a plurality of logic gates via which the paths pass; the paths comprise the same combinations of logic gates and interconnecting path lengths as one another such that the propagation delays of the candidate clock signals between the input and output nodes when selected are the same as one another; the selector circuitry is operable, based on the selection signal, to adjust which one of an array of clock-select signals has a select state, the other clock-select signals of the array having a deselect state; and the selector circuitry is configured such that the clock-select signal having the select state causes a corresponding one of the candidate clock signals to be output as the transmission clock signal and the clock-select signals having the deselect state cause corresponding ones of the candidate clock signals to not be output as the transmission clock signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43478
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10000036', '15456210', '10654358', '10654258', '10680636']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4329949737264565
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4816920485405687
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4378646812078677
- Mean Citation Score: 192.99181200000004
- Max Citation Score: 217.28738
- Similarity Product: 182.8186137364984

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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