ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,726, issued on May 19, was assigned to ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for increasing certainty in parameterized model predictions" was invented by Maxim Pisarenco (Son en Breugel, Netherlands), Scott Anderson Middlebrooks (Duizel, Netherlands) and Coen Adrianus Verschuren (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing certainty in parameterized model predictions. The method includes clustering dimensional data in a latent space associated with a parameterized model into clusters. Different clusters correspond to different portions of a given input. The method includes predicting...