PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036732
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["355", "055000"]

Abstract:
A method to improve a lithographic process for imaging a portion of a design layout onto a substrate using a lithographic projection apparatus having an illumination system and projection optics, the method including: obtaining an illumination source shape and a mask defocus value; optimizing a dose of the lithographic process; and optimizing the portion of the design layout for each of a plurality of slit positions of the illumination source.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10 , wherein the obtaining the illumination shape and the mask defocus value further comprises optimizing the illumination and the portion of the design layout using a thin mask model, wherein the illumination is a freeform illumination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78571
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13719135', '14968561', '15451328', '13293116', '15116486']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7429430030375418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5008743282814383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7187361355619315
- Mean Citation Score: 274.85781000000003
- Max Citation Score: 280.5376
- Similarity Product: 180.2604692489624

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

Dataset: test