PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878041
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["355", "078000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure provides a sensor arrangement for sensing a position of an optical element in a lithography system. The sensor arrangement includes: a first capacitive sensor device having a position-dependent variable first sensor capacitance that can be sensed using a first excitation signal; a second capacitive sensor device having a position-dependent variable second sensor capacitance that can be sensed using a second excitation signal; and a control device configured to produce the first and second excitation signals so that charges present on a parasitic capacitance associable with the first sensor device are at least partially compensated for by charges that are present on a parasitic capacitance associable with the second sensor device via a signal path outside the first and/or the second excitation signal path.

Claim (Index 20):
A method, comprising:\n providing a lithography system comprising an optical element and a sensor arrangement configured to position the optical element, and the sensor arrangement comprising a sensor arrangement according to  claim 1 ; and producing the first and second excitation signals so that charges present on the parasitic capacitance associable with the first sensor device are at least partially compensated for by charges that are present on the parasitic capacitance associable with the second sensor device via a signal path outside at least one path selected from the group consisting of the excitation signal path first and the second excitation signal path; sensing the first and second sensor capacitances; and determining an inclination or position of the optical element based on the sensed first and second sensor capacitances.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20339
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15417962', '14958982', '15845590', '11340363', '13898384']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6404756450605622
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739365583324451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6238217363877505
- Mean Citation Score: 177.615084
- Max Citation Score: 187.44392
- Similarity Product: 136.23927328786374

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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