PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16223802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus includes a movable stage configured to move below and relative to a projection system, a liquid supply inlet and a first liquid collection outlet, the movable stage having a second liquid collection outlet. A first measurement system is provided downstream of the first liquid collection outlet and measures an amount of liquid collected via the first liquid collection outlet. A second measurement system is provided downstream of the second liquid collection outlet and measures an amount of liquid collected via the second liquid collection outlet. A substrate held on the movable stage is exposed with an exposure beam from the projection system via liquid in a liquid immersion area which covers a portion of an upper surface of the substrate and which is formed while performing liquid supply via the liquid supply inlet and liquid collection via the first liquid collection outlet.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the second measurement system includes a flow-meter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83333
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15332509', '15689321', '14264711', '11366743', '13751509']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.742655441567951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.518570973367841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7202469947479401
- Mean Citation Score: 327.09219399999995
- Max Citation Score: 341.7854
- Similarity Product: 235.4154604431629

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