PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16146433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["355", "053000"]

Abstract:
Position information of a movable body within an XY plane is measured with high accuracy by an encoder system whose measurement values have favorable short-term stability, without being affected by air fluctuations, and also position information of the movable body in a Z-axis direction orthogonal to the XY plane is measured with high accuracy by a surface position measuring system, without being affected by air fluctuations. In this case, since both of the encoder system and the surface position measuring system directly measure the upper surface of the movable body, simple and direct position control of the movable body can be performed.

Claim (Index 13):
The exposure apparatus according to  claim 12 , wherein\n the controller controls the second drive system so that, in the exposure operation, exposure of a step-and-scan method is performed with respect to areas disposed in line in the second direction, of the plurality of areas on the substrate, and the second stage is moved from the other side to the one side in the first direction, in the exposure of the step-and-scan method the scanning exposure and movement of the substrate in the second direction being repeated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 83.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91228
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15687003', '15675037', '15686718', '15678674', '15678660']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8028889627854446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6019703182499742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7827970983318977
- Mean Citation Score: 404.475108
- Max Citation Score: 419.24802
- Similarity Product: 412.16695038539183

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