ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,558, issued on March 3, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for pulsed voltage contrast detection and capture of charging dynamics" was invented by Benoit Herve Gaury (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jun Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Bruno La Fontaine (Pleasanton, Calif.), Shakeeb Bin Hasan (Montreal), Kenichi Kanai (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jasper Frans Mathijs Van Rens (Hegelsom, Netherlands), Cyrus Emil Tabery (San Jose, Calif.), Long Ma (San Jose, Calif.), Oliver Desmond Patterson (San Jose, Calif.), Jian Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Chih-Yu Jen (San Jose, Calif.) and Yixiang Wang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S....