PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034859
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
An immersion lithographic apparatus has adaptations to prevent or reduce bubble formation in one or more gaps in the substrate table by preventing bubbles escaping from the gap into the beam path and/or extracting bubbles that may form in the gap.

Claim (Index 8):
A lithographic apparatus configured to project an image of a desired pattern through a liquid onto a substrate held on a substrate table, there being a gap in a surface of the substrate table or between the substrate table and another component mounted thereon with which the liquid can, in normal use, come into contact, the apparatus comprising a device configured to extract liquid, gas or both from the gap and/or to supply liquid to the gap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23529
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11120176', '14975513', '13361443', '13242004', '13240946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7660922162776604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5003283495927285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7395158296091673
- Mean Citation Score: 289.697352
- Max Citation Score: 306.33328
- Similarity Product: 245.3194219331169

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