PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16332820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
An immersion lithography apparatus having a controller configured to control a positioner to move a support table relative to an immersion space between the support table and a projection system to follow a route having a series of motions, the controller adapted to: predict a speed of an edge of the immersion space relative to an edge of an object on the support table when the edge of the immersion space passes over the edge of the object during at least one motion of the series of motions of the route; compare the speed to a predetermined parameter and to predict liquid loss from the immersion space during the at least one motion if the speed is greater than the predetermined parameter; and if liquid loss from the immersion space is predicted, modify one or more parameters of the route during the at least one motion accordingly.

Claim (Index 19):
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions therein, the instructions, when executed, configured to cause a computer system to at least:\n predict a relative speed between an edge of an immersion space and an edge of an object when the edge of the immersion space passes over the edge of the object occurring during at least one motion of a series of motions of a route of movement of a support table, wherein the support table supports the object and the immersion space is a space arranged to have liquid therein and defined between a projection system of an immersion lithographic apparatus and a surface of the object and/or support table; compare the speed to a predetermined parameter and predict liquid loss from the immersion space occurring during the at least one motion responsive to the speed being greater than the predetermined parameter; and responsive to a prediction of liquid loss from the immersion space, modify one or more parameters of the route for the at least one motion accordingly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16269745', '15500866', '16477955', '15768446', '13168177']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7234030148258609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.490824226253312
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7001451359686061
- Mean Citation Score: 266.834284
- Max Citation Score: 294.61667
- Similarity Product: 241.0437671455657

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

Dataset: test