PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["355", "055000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of optimizing within an inspection apparatus, the position and/or size (and therefore focus) of a measurement illumination spot relative to a target on a substrate. The method comprises detecting scattered radiation from at least the target resultant from illuminating the target, for different sizes and/or positions of said illumination spot relative to the target; and optimizing said position and/or size of the measurement illumination spot relative to the target based on a characteristic of the detected scattered radiation for the different sizes and/or positions of said illumination spot relative to the target.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein the optimizing comprises optimizing the size of the measurement illumination spot relative to the target, the size of the measurement illumination spot being dependent upon focus of the measurement spot on the target, the method further comprising:\n detecting the scattered radiation for different focus settings of the measurement illumination spot on the target; and selecting an optimal focus setting based on a comparison of the characteristic of the detected scattered radiation for each of the different focus settings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14583
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15842958', '15683216', '15378962', '14794013', '15875156']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7219205160257725
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4895799355075949
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6986864579739547
- Mean Citation Score: 259.99947000000003
- Max Citation Score: 273.88882
- Similarity Product: 211.40493565908668

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

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