PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909748
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["355", "055000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, there is provided an exposure apparatus, including a focus detecting system, a stage, and a controller. On the stage, a substrate is to be mounted. The controller performs focus measurement on an incomplete shot area, part of which is outside a pattern forming area of the substrate, by the focus detecting system. The controller obtains amounts of defocus of a plurality of planes that are candidates for approximating the incomplete shot area according to the result of measuring the incomplete shot area. The controller decides on a plane to approximate the incomplete shot area from among the plurality of planes according to the amounts of defocus of the plurality of planes. The controller drives the stage using a focus-leveling value according to the decided-on plane so as to control a surface position of the incomplete shot area.

Claim (Index 5):
The exposure apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein\n the controller determines a plane for which a maximum amount of defocus in part of the pattern forming area in the incomplete shot area is a smallest to be a plane to approximate the incomplete shot area, from among the plurality of planes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29851
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12658383', '10351721', '10648312', '11707027', '12832600']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6938625405603728
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876345333898068
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6732397398433162
- Mean Citation Score: 134.87203200000002
- Max Citation Score: 140.37653999999998
- Similarity Product: 76.98619902996539

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

Dataset: test