PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903690
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["361", "086000"]

Abstract:
A driver and protection circuit for driving a power switch is disclosed. The driver and protection circuit includes a fault detection block configured to detect a discrepancy between a reference drive signal and a measured voltage at a gate of the power switch. The driver and protection circuit also includes a short circuit detection block configured to detect a gate-to-source short circuit or a gate-to-drain short circuit of the power switch. The driver and protection circuit further includes a latch coupled to the fault detection block and the short circuit detection block to selectively turn off an output driver coupled to the gate of the power switch when a fault or a short circuit is detected, and wherein the latch is configured to send a diagnostic signal when the fault or the short circuit is detected.

Claim (Index 15):
A method comprising:\n applying a first weak current to a gate of a first transistor and a second weak current to a gate of a second transistor coupled in series with the first transistor; and changing a state of the first transistor while maintaining a state of the second transistor by transitioning the first weak current applied to the gate of the first transistor to a first strong current applied to the gate of the first transistor, and transitioning the second weak current applied to the gate of the second transistor to a second strong current applied to the gate of the second transistor, wherein the first weak current and the first strong current have opposite polarities, and the second weak current and the second strong current have a same polarity; and transitioning the first strong current applied to the gate of the first transistor to a third weak current applied to the gate of the first transistor, and transitioning the second strong current applied to the gate of the second transistor to the second weak current applied to the gate of the second transistor, wherein the first strong current and the third weak current have a same polarity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76471
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14845638', '14798903', '15368449', '14798912', '13875651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8150985594115878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782446721296883
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7814131706833979
- Mean Citation Score: 148.310204
- Max Citation Score: 195.69958
- Similarity Product: 143.3349799292231

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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