PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160517
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an optical arrangement for use in an optical imaging process. The optical arrangement includes an optical element, an immersion zone and a liquid repelling device. During the optical imaging process, the immersion zone is located adjacent to the optical element and is filled with an immersion liquid. The optical element has a first surface region and a second surface region. During the optical imaging process, the first surface region is wetted by the immersion liquid. At least temporarily during the optical imaging process, the liquid repelling device generates an electrical field in the region of the second surface. The electrical field being is adapted to cause a repellent force on parts of the immersion liquid which are responsive to the electrical field and inadvertently contact the second surface region. The repellent force has a direction to drive away the parts of the immersion liquid from the second surface region.

Claim (Index 25):
The optical arrangement of  claim 24 , wherein the electrically conductive element directly contacts the optical element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67742
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14492387', '13285729', '15582863', '11628061', '11512087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7435766507571777
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.523556928567418
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7215746785382018
- Mean Citation Score: 283.783948
- Max Citation Score: 377.89163
- Similarity Product: 294.6829329981232

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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