PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036732
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["355", "055000"]

Abstract:
A method to improve a lithographic process for imaging a portion of a design layout onto a substrate using a lithographic projection apparatus having an illumination system and projection optics, the method including: obtaining an illumination source shape and a mask defocus value; optimizing a dose of the lithographic process; and optimizing the portion of the design layout for each of a plurality of slit positions of the illumination source.

Claim (Index 16):
The computer program product of  claim 15 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the computer, are further configured to optimize the design layout wherein transmission at all locations of the portion of the design layout is not restricted to a number of discrete values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78571
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13719135', '14968561', '15451328', '13293116', '15116486']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7442390070392896
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4917456698902716
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7189896733243878
- Mean Citation Score: 274.85781000000003
- Max Citation Score: 280.5376
- Similarity Product: 216.33867514953613

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

Dataset: test