US Patent Issued to ASML NETHERLANDS on Sept. 8 for "Gripper and lithographic apparatus comprising the gripper" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,386, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Gripper and lithographic apparatus comprising the gripper" was invented by Paul Van Dongen (Wilton, Conn.) and Aart Adrianus Van Beuzekom (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper configured to transport a substrate in a lithographic apparatus, the gripper including: a main body with one or more engagement portions for engaging with a surface of the substrate, wherein a part of the main body, that is overlapped by a region of a substrate when the one or more engagement portions are engaged with the substrate, has a pluralit...