US Patent Issued to ASML Netherlands on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for calculating a spatial map associated with a component" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,918, issued on April 15, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for calculating a spatial map associated with a component" was invented by Mauritius Gerardus Elisabeth Schneiders (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Koos Van Berkel (Waalre, Netherlands) and Wenjie Jin (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating a spatial map associated with a component, the spatial map indicating spatial variations of thermal expansion parameters in the component, the method comprising: providing or determining a temperature distribution in the component as a function of time; cal...