PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16219561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
Lithography methods and corresponding lithography apparatuses are disclosed herein for improving throughput of lithography exposure processes. An exemplary lithography method includes generating a plurality of target material droplets and generating radiation from the plurality of target material droplets based on a dose margin to expose a wafer. The dose margin indicates how many of the plurality of target material droplets are reserved for dose control. In some implementations, the plurality of target material droplets are grouped into a plurality of bursts, and the lithography method further includes performing an inter-compensation operation that designates an excitation state of target material droplets in one of the plurality of bursts to compensate for an energy characteristic of another one of the plurality of bursts.

Claim (Index 9):
The lithography method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n developing the exposed resist layer, thereby forming a patterned resist layer; and performing a fabrication process on the wafer using the patterned resist layer as a mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98438
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15617882', '14717890', '14803849', '15905951', '15194118']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6647492141128105
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5308978311248042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6513640758140098
- Mean Citation Score: 267.219406
- Max Citation Score: 383.5685
- Similarity Product: 306.9171276498734

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

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