US Patent Issued to ASML Netherlands on Sept. 8 for "Electron-optical assembly comprising electromagnetic shielding" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,754, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Electron-optical assembly comprising electromagnetic shielding" was invented by Derk Ferdinand Walvoort (Pijnacker, Netherlands), Dmitry Mudretsov (Delft, Netherlands), Xuerang Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Qingpo Xi (Fremont, Calif.), Jurgen Van Soest (Amersfoort, Netherlands) and Marco Jan-Jaco Wieland (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an electron-optical assembly for an electron-optical column for projecting a charged particle beam along a beam path towards a target, the electron-optical assembly comprising: elect...