PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006646
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["355", "077000"]

Abstract:
Phase conflicts in pattern transfer with phase masks can be resolve by exposing pattern features with a first pattern and a second pattern, wherein the second pattern is selected based on the phase conflicts. In scanned exposures using pulsed lasers, a number of exposures of the second pattern can be less than 20% of a total number of exposures.

Claim (Index 31):
An exposure apparatus which exposes a workpiece with an exposure light from a light source, comprising:\n a spatial light modulator including a plurality of optical elements situated in an optical path of the exposure light; and a controller which is configured to control the spatial light modulator so as to set each of the plurality of optical elements of the spatial light modulator to a first state or a second state, wherein the controlling comprises: setting an optical element from the plurality of optical elements positioned in a first area of the spatial light modulator to the first state so as to expose a first exposure region on the workpiece with a first exposure light from the optical elements in the first area; setting an optical element from the plurality of optical elements positioned in a second area of the spatial light modulator to the second state so as to expose a second exposure region on the workpiece with a second exposure light from the optical element in the second area, wherein the second area partially adjoins the first area; and setting an optical element from the plurality of optical elements positioned in a third area of the spatial light modulator that includes an area where the first area and the second area are in contact to the first or second state so as to expose a third exposure region between the first exposure region and the second exposure region with a third exposure light from the optical element in the third area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64103
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11003889', '11230676', '12813888', '14778324', '11836343']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6682876034638081
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4498046729041245
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6464393104078399
- Mean Citation Score: 143.4527
- Max Citation Score: 149.15128
- Similarity Product: 117.61992118918896

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

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