US Patent Issued to ASML Netherlands on Aug. 5 for "Magnet assembly, coil assembly, planar motor, positioning device and lithographic apparatus" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,464, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Magnet assembly, coil assembly, planar motor, positioning device and lithographic apparatus" was invented by Gudrun Ghilaine Agnes De Gersem (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Roger Franciscus Mattheus Maria Hamelinck (Breda, Netherlands) and Jeroen Van Duivenbode (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a magnet assembly for a planar electromagnetic motor, the magnet assembly comprising: -a first plurality of superconductive (SC) coils, inside an outer circumference and arranged in a planar pattern such as a rectangular...