PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15994400
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for performing a measurement operation on a substrate in accordance with one or more substrate alignment models. The one or more substrate alignment models are selected from a plurality of candidate substrate alignment models. The apparatus, which may be a lithographic apparatus, includes an external interface which enables selection of the substrate alignment model(s) and/or alteration of the substrate alignment model(s) prior to the measurement operation.

Claim (Index 15):
A non-transitory program carrier comprising machine readable instructions which, when run on a suitable apparatus, cause the apparatus to at least:\n determine as to which substrate alignment model(s) from a plurality of candidate substrate alignment models would best fit a particular substrate or lot of substrates; select one or more substrate alignment models from the plurality of candidate substrate alignment models based upon the determination; and cause performance of a measurement operation on the substrate or lot of substrates in accordance with the selected one or more substrate alignment models, wherein the determination and selection are performed either per each lot of substrates or per substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7234
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15111457', '11484849', '15763780', '15772432', '13010388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6471707108121462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5272323426128005
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6351768739922116
- Mean Citation Score: 235.57851800000003
- Max Citation Score: 371.51514
- Similarity Product: 353.09998920590414

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

Dataset: test