PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256026
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["355", "053000"]

Abstract:
An exposure apparatus includes (i) a projection optical system, (ii) a substrate stage having a substrate holder on which a substrate is held, which is movable while holding the substrate with the substrate holder, and (iii) a reference member having a first reference and a second reference for performing an alignment process, the reference member being provided on the substrate stage. At least part of an upper surface of the reference member includes a liquid repellent material. The substrate is aligned based on information obtained from the alignment process. The substrate is exposed through liquid in a liquid immersion area formed locally on an upper surface of the substrate.

Claim (Index 9):
The exposure apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the projection optical system projects an image of a pattern of a mask illuminated with illumination light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98387
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11399537', '15199195', '14693320', '13354899', '11141518']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7579081088924065
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5287195423121648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7349892522343823
- Mean Citation Score: 355.885716
- Max Citation Score: 382.08685
- Similarity Product: 268.64115191566947

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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