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 22):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein:\n the detecting comprises detecting scattered radiation from the target and its surroundings resultant from illuminating the target for different positions of the illumination spot in the plane of the substrate, relative to the target; and the optimizing comprises optimizing an aligned position of the measurement illumination spot relative to the target based on the characteristic for the different positions of the illumination spot relative to the target.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14583
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15842958', '15683216', '15378962', '14794013', '15875156']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7453568996706678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4904593422785131
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7198671439314523
- Mean Citation Score: 259.99947000000003
- Max Citation Score: 273.88882
- Similarity Product: 216.50517382534505

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

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