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 10):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein one or more of the design variables represent one or more characteristics of an illumination by the lithographic apparatus, one or more of the design variables represented one or more characteristics of the design layout, one or more of the design variables represent one or more characteristics of projection optics of the lithographic apparatus, one or more of the design variables represent one or more characteristics of a resist of the substrate, or one or more of the design variables represent one or more characteristics of an aerial image or a resist image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90566
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14968561', '15547324', '13719135', '15318940', '15126234']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7184902649311744
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5037199258498373
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6970132310230407
- Mean Citation Score: 305.91153
- Max Citation Score: 318.54514
- Similarity Product: 299.6165455483913

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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