PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920834
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
An exposure method for exposing a mask pattern, which includes plural types of patterns, with a high throughput and optimal illumination conditions for each type of pattern. The method includes guiding light from a first spatial light modulator illuminated with pulse lights of illumination light to a second spatial light modulator and exposing a wafer with light from the second spatial light modulator, accompanied by: controlling a conversion state of the second spatial light modulator including a plurality of second mirror elements; and controlling a conversion state of the first spatial light modulator including a plurality of first mirror elements to control intensity distribution of the illumination light on a predetermined plane between the first spatial light modulator and the second spatial light modulator.

Claim (Index 73):
The exposure apparatus according to  claim 72 , wherein\n the stage is moved to move the object relative to the exposure light during exposure, the second mirror array is controlled to generate different patterns by the second mirror array during the exposure, and the first mirror array is controlled to generate mutually different light intensity distributions with the different patterns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29825
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14991667', '12266367', '15374484', '14320075', '12266321']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7650721074171726
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5240834895344899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7409732456289043
- Mean Citation Score: 318.905346
- Max Citation Score: 358.5904
- Similarity Product: 258.32317206039426

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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