PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16076743
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["355", "018000"]

Abstract:
A lithographic process includes clamping a substrate onto a substrate support, measuring positions across the clamped substrate, and applying a pattern to the clamped substrate using the positions measured. A correction is applied to the positioning of the applied pattern in localized regions of the substrate, based on recognition of a warp-induced characteristic in the positions measured across the substrate. The correction may be generated by inferring one or more shape characteristics of the warped substrate using the measured positions and other information. Based on the one or more inferred shape characteristics, a clamping model is applied to simulate deformation of the warped substrate in response to clamping. A correction is calculated based on the simulated deformation.

Claim (Index 26):
A lithographic apparatus for applying a pattern onto a substrate, the apparatus including:\n a substrate support configured to clamp the substrate; a height sensor configured to measure a height map of the clamped substrate; and a patterning system configured to apply the pattern to the clamped substrate while or after positioning the applied pattern, wherein the patterning system is configured to apply a correction to the positioning of the applied pattern based on the height map and a characteristic of the substrate support.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21053
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15527645', '15763780', '10998179', '14103486', '12451749']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7068967518184818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4687292322690743
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.683079999863541
- Mean Citation Score: 180.702648
- Max Citation Score: 191.59157
- Similarity Product: 141.4892094480419

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

Dataset: test