ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,051, issued on July 28, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Sensing element level circuitry design for electron counting detection device" was invented by Yongxin Wang (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charged particle beam detector may include a circuit with a storage cell configured to receive a signal representing an output of a sensing element; a storage cell multiplexer configured to selectively transmit the signal representing the output of the sensing element to the storage cell; a threshold detector configured to compare the signal representing the output of the sensing element t...