US Patent Issued to ASML NETHERLANDS, ASML HOLDING on March 31 for "Methods and apparatuses for spatially filtering optical pulses" (Dutch, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,132, issued on March 31, was assigned to ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and ASML HOLDING N.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and apparatuses for spatially filtering optical pulses" was invented by Ali Alsaqqa (Trumbull, Conn.), Patrick Sebastian Uebel (Marloffstein, Germany) and Paulus Antonius Andreas Teunissen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical filter apparatus including an optical divergence device, operable to receive optical pulses and spatially distribute the optical pulses over an optical plane in dependence with a pulse energy of each of the optical pulses; and a spatial fil...