US Patent Issued to CANON on May 5 for "Control apparatus, control method, storage medium, control system, lithography apparatus, and method of manufacturing article" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,219, issued on May 5, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, storage medium, control system, lithography apparatus, and method of manufacturing article" was invented by Yasuhiro Watanabe (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for controlling a plurality of nodes connected to a network is provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit configured to transmit/receive, via the network in a predetermined period, a data frame including a plurality of data areas respectively assigned to the nodes; and a setting unit configured to, in a case where a first data area, of the plu...