US Patent Issued to CARL ZEISS SMT, ASML NETHERLANDS on Aug. 25 for "Vibration isolator for supporting a payload" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,462, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CARL ZEISS SMT GMBH (Oberkochen, Germany) and ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Vibration isolator for supporting a payload" was invented by Alexander Petrus Josephus Van Lankvelt (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Michiel Vervoordeldonk (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Pavel Kagan (Abtsgmuend, Germany), Marc Wilhelmus Maria Van Der Wijst (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Galip Tuna Turkbey (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Marco Huiskamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Ulrich Schoenhoff (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration isolator (10; 210) for supporting a payload and isolating the payload f...