US Patent Issued to ASML Netherlands on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus and methods for generating denoising model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,621, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and methods for generating denoising model" was invented by Hairong Lei (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Fang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for training a denoising model. The method includes obtaining a first set of simulated images based on design patterns. The simulated images may be clean and can be added with noise to generate noisy simulated images. The simulated clean and noisy images are used as training data to generate a denoising model."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2023, under A...