PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016162
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["355", "071000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided that determine an offset between actual feature/mark locations and the designed feature/mark locations in a maskless lithography system. For example, in one embodiment, a method is provided that includes opening a camera shutter in a maskless lithography system. Light is directed from a configuration of non-adjacent mirrors in a mirror array towards a first substrate layer. An image of the first substrate layer on a camera is captured and accumulated. Light is directed and images are captured repeatedly using different configurations of non-adjacent mirrors to cover an entire field-of-view (FOV) of the camera on the first substrate layer. Thereafter, the camera shutter is closed and the accumulated image is stored in memory.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 6  further comprising:\n measuring actual mark locations on the second substrate layer from the accumulated images of the second substrate layer; \n comparing designed mark locations for the first substrate layer to the actual mark locations on the second substrate layer; and \n determining, from the comparing designed mark locations for the second substrate layer, an offset to align the actual mark locations on the second substrate layer to the designed mark locations on the first substrate layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93939
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14143139', '10456972', '11210683', '14739311', '15785222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6413482014476249
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.476489646112478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6248623459141103
- Mean Citation Score: 147.32825
- Max Citation Score: 154.35788
- Similarity Product: 100.6641196114707

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