PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194567
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes a projection system, and a liquid confinement structure configured to at least partly confine immersion liquid to an immersion space defined by the projection system, the liquid confinement structure and a substrate and/or substrate table. Measures are taken in the lithographic apparatus, for example, to reduce the effect of droplets on the final element of the projection system or to substantially avoid such droplet formation.

Claim (Index 23):
The immersion lithographic apparatus of  claim 21 , wherein the passageway-former is supported by the projection system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14928891', '15623091', '14586390', '12770356', '15320300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7684502499891855
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5204229540834642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7436475203986134
- Mean Citation Score: 347.281672
- Max Citation Score: 371.87415
- Similarity Product: 285.34449160734414

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

Dataset: test