PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174464
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["250", "50400R"]

Abstract:
A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a chamber that defines a target space, a first region, and a second region closer to the target space than the first region; a target delivery system configured to release a target along a trajectory toward the target space, the trajectory overlapping both the first region and the second region, the target comprising a material that emits extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light when converted to plasma and the target having a first moving property in the first region and a second moving property in the second region, the second moving property being different from the first moving property; a diagnostic system that produces a diagnostic probe that interacts with the target in the second region and outputs data relating to the interaction; and a control system that is configured to:\n receive the data output from the diagnostic system; \n analyze the outputted data; and \n determine the second moving property of the target based on an analysis of the data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15265373', '15265376', '16322002', '16057101', '14563496']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7672368515383842
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5794597556763375
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7484591419521794
- Mean Citation Score: 389.91136
- Max Citation Score: 511.2777400000001
- Similarity Product: 412.13773099805

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

Dataset: test