PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16226731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
A new way of drying and/or wetting a surface, such as a top surface of a substrate, is disclosed which is useful in immersion lithography. The surface is placed under a single phase extractor and a priming liquid is delivered between the single phase extractor and the surface. The single phase extractor is only activated after the priming liquid has been provided between the single phase extractor and the surface. Priming liquid is delivered to the single phase extractor during the whole of the drying and/or wetting process.

Claim (Index 13):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein a surface between an inlet of the liquid delivery device and an outlet of the liquid remover is liquid phobic.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08889
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11984825', '15495548', '14792143', '12408392', '12901939']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.698608270025926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5059228192774405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6793397249510774
- Mean Citation Score: 259.882384
- Max Citation Score: 319.99905
- Similarity Product: 293.47221987724896

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