PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034859
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
An immersion lithographic apparatus has adaptations to prevent or reduce bubble formation in one or more gaps in the substrate table by preventing bubbles escaping from the gap into the beam path and/or extracting bubbles that may form in the gap.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the bubble retaining device comprises one or more sharp edges.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23529
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11120176', '14975513', '13361443', '13242004', '13240946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7870833839517082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4984968880231404
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7582247343588514
- Mean Citation Score: 289.697352
- Max Citation Score: 306.33328
- Similarity Product: 270.14785557455065

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