PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971065
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
In an immersion lithography apparatus in which immersion liquid is supplied to a localized space, the space is substantially polygonal in plan substantially parallel to the substrate. In an embodiment, two corners of the space have a radius of curvature no greater than the width of a transition zone between the space configured to contain liquid and a surrounding configured not to contain liquid.

Claim (Index 17):
The method according to  claim 16 , wherein the principal axes are defined relative to paths of beams measuring displacement of a substrate table of the lithographic apparatus holding the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65854
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12213426', '10986185', '14993810', '14444833', '12725883']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7301639320650541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5176437225606955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7089119111146183
- Mean Citation Score: 314.092552
- Max Citation Score: 341.84946
- Similarity Product: 263.00780877264265

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

Dataset: test