ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,217, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Monitoring system for manufacturing semiconductor device and monitoring method for manufacturing the semiconductor device using the same" was invented by Dong-Hyub Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeong-Gil Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyuck Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises a source module, an optical module including a collector collecting and reflecting extreme ultraviolet generated light from the source module, an illumination optical syste...