US Patent Issued to ASML Netherlands on June 23 for "Dual-use read-out circuitry in charged particle detection system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,162, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Dual-use read-out circuitry in charged particle detection system" was invented by Jan Louis Sundermeyer (Nuremberg, Germany), Leonhard Martin Klein (Nuremberg, Germany), Matthias Oberst (Nuremberg, Germany) and Harald Gert Helmut Neubauer (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved readout circuit for a charged particle detector and a method for operating the readout circuit are disclosed. An improved circuit comprises an amplifier configured to receive a signal representing an output of a sensor layer and comprising a first inp...