PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16199964
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["355", "071000"]

Abstract:
An exposure method and apparatus for illuminating a pattern with an illumination system to expose a substrate through a projection system. The pattern is illuminated with illumination light with a light amount distribution in which an amount of light is larger in a pair of first areas and a pair of second areas than in an area other than the first and second areas on a pupil plane of the illumination system. The pair of the first areas being arranged outside an optical axis, the pair of the second areas being arranged on ten same straight line as the pair of the first areas are arranged on, and the pair of the second areas being arranged outside the pair of the first areas.

Claim (Index 6):
The illumination system according to  claim 2 , wherein the area which substantially includes the optical axis is annular.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11902282', '12382277', '11246642', '11902277', '13890142']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7244769148442516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5087498822039208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7029042115802185
- Mean Citation Score: 323.414956
- Max Citation Score: 329.62814
- Similarity Product: 229.7284636770177

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

Dataset: test