PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15781970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
A method to improve a lithographic process of imaging a portion of a design layout onto a substrate using a lithographic apparatus, the method including: computing a multi-variable cost function, the multi-variable cost function being a function a plurality of design variables that represent characteristics of the lithographic process; and reconfiguring one or more of the characteristics of the lithographic process by adjusting one or more of the design variables until a certain termination condition is satisfied; wherein a bandwidth of a radiation source of the lithographic apparatus is allowed to change during the reconfiguration.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the reconfiguration is under a constraint that any geometrical characteristics of a patterning device comprising the design layout are not allowed to change.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90566
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14968561', '15547324', '13719135', '15318940', '15126234']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6927464989524088
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5160105502475368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6750729040819216
- Mean Citation Score: 305.91153
- Max Citation Score: 318.54514
- Similarity Product: 187.49028973818065

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