PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174464
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["250", "50400R"]

Abstract:
A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of measuring a moving property of a target as it travels along a trajectory in a laser produced plasma extreme ultraviolet light source, the method comprising:\n releasing a current target along a trajectory toward a target space, the current target including a component that emits extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light when converted to plasma; directing a preliminary radiation pulse toward the target space to deliver energy to the current target to modify a geometric distribution of the current target; directing a main radiation pulse toward the target space, an interaction between the main radiation pulse and the current target converting at least part of the current target into plasma that emits extreme ultraviolet light; determining one or more moving properties of the current target before the current target enters the target space; and controlling one or more of a relative position between the main radiation pulse and a present target, and a relative position between the preliminary radiation pulse and a present target based on the determined one or more moving properties of the current target, wherein the present target is either the current target that has entered the target space or another target that has entered the target space after the current target has interacted with the preliminary radiation pulse and the main radiation pulse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15265373', '15265376', '16322002', '16057101', '14563496']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7643366069081434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5889177345406571
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7467947196713948
- Mean Citation Score: 389.91136
- Max Citation Score: 511.2777400000001
- Similarity Product: 458.1037416226423

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

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