PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906580
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["355", "055000"]

Abstract:
In a method executed in an exposure apparatus, a focus control effective region and a focus control exclusion region are set based on an exposure map and a chip area layout within an exposure area. Focus-leveling data are measured over a wafer. A photo resist layer on the wafer is exposed with an exposure light. When a chip area of a plurality of chip areas of the exposure area is located within an effective region of a wafer, the chip area is included in the focus control effective region, and when a part of or all of a chip area of the plurality of chip areas is located on or outside a periphery of the effective region of the wafer, the chip area is included in the focus control exclusion region In the exposing, a focus-leveling is controlled by using the focus-leveling data measured at the focus control effective region.

Claim (Index 19):
The optical scanner of  claim 12 , wherein the measuring focus-leveling data is not performed for the focus control exclusion region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78947
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12832600', '11947239', '13905529', '13014803', '10278972']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.683144491257446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937777505483019
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6642078171865317
- Mean Citation Score: 137.136142
- Max Citation Score: 171.67792
- Similarity Product: 93.26944736694335

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