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 11):
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions recorded thereon, the instructions, when executed by a computer system, configured to cause at least:\n computation of a multi-variable cost function, the multi-variable cost function being a function of a bandwidth of a radiation source of a lithographic apparatus, or being a function of a variable that is a function of the bandwidth or that affects the bandwidth, the bandwidth or the variable being a function of one or more of a plurality of design variables that represent one or more characteristics of a lithographic process of imaging a portion of a design layout onto a substrate using the lithographic apparatus; and reconfiguration of one or more of the characteristics of the lithographic process by adjusting one or more of the design variables and re-computing the multi-variable cost function based on the adjusted one or more design variables until a certain termination condition is satisfied.

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): 0.6933744671571674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5075869289810965
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6747957133395603
- Mean Citation Score: 305.91153
- Max Citation Score: 318.54514
- Similarity Product: 252.24734566657423

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

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