PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16309501
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["355", "072000"]

Abstract:
A system for positioning, a stage system, a lithographic apparatus, a method for positioning and a method for manufacturing a device in which use is made of a stage system. The stage system has a plurality of air bearing devices. Each air bearing device has: a gas bearing body which has a free surface, a primary channel which extends through the bearing body and has an inlet opening in the free surface, and a secondary channel system which extends through the bearing body and which has a plurality of discharge openings in the free surface. The flow resistance in the secondary channel system can be higher than the flow resistance in the primary channel.

Claim (Index 14):
A stage system for positioning an object, the stage system comprising:\n a member having a plurality of gas bearing devices; and a control device, wherein each gas bearing device comprises a free surface having a discharge opening in the free surface, the free surface arranged to support the object, wherein the discharge opening is arranged to provided pressurized gas, and wherein the control device is arranged to change a shape of the object by controlling a pressure and/or a gas flow rate at the discharge opening of at least one of the gas bearing devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53061
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13722830', '10623180', '10894365', '10705783', '14423405']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6801646471062347
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4662949848059744
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6587776808762087
- Mean Citation Score: 159.97856399999995
- Max Citation Score: 166.03816
- Similarity Product: 114.22060058863164

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

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