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 20):
A dryer configured to dry a surface, the dryer comprising:\n 1) a sensor configured to detect a distance between the dryer and a surface being dried; and an actuator configured to control the distance between the dryer and the surface being dried based on a signal representative of the distance received from the sensor, or 2) a first gas knife configured to extract liquid from the surface; a second gas knife spaced from the first gas knife and configured to extract liquid from the surface; and a disruptor positioned between the first gas knife and the second gas knife, the disruptor being configured to initiate break-up of a film of liquid on the surface into droplets wherein the disruptor comprises a gas outlet configured to provide a jet of gas to a localized area to initiate break-up of the film of liquid and wherein the jet of gas has, in plan, an aspect ratio of between 1:0.5 and 1:2.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08889
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11984825', '15495548', '14792143', '12408392', '12901939']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6725075795470309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5105679755567125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6563136191479991
- Mean Citation Score: 259.882384
- Max Citation Score: 319.99905
- Similarity Product: 238.37335391147727

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