PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16332820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
An immersion lithography apparatus having a controller configured to control a positioner to move a support table relative to an immersion space between the support table and a projection system to follow a route having a series of motions, the controller adapted to: predict a speed of an edge of the immersion space relative to an edge of an object on the support table when the edge of the immersion space passes over the edge of the object during at least one motion of the series of motions of the route; compare the speed to a predetermined parameter and to predict liquid loss from the immersion space during the at least one motion if the speed is greater than the predetermined parameter; and if liquid loss from the immersion space is predicted, modify one or more parameters of the route during the at least one motion accordingly.

Claim (Index 7):
The immersion lithography apparatus of  claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured such that the prediction of the speed treats the discrete immersion space edge portions as portions extending between adjacent extraction openings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16269745', '15500866', '16477955', '15768446', '13168177']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7451746168638061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043804672671724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7210952019041428
- Mean Citation Score: 266.834284
- Max Citation Score: 294.61667
- Similarity Product: 185.80308883899983

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

Dataset: test