US Patent Issued to ASML Netherlands on Dec. 30 for "Enhanced architecture for high-performance detection device technical field" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,988, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Enhanced architecture for high-performance detection device technical field" was invented by Yongxin Wang (San Ramon, Calif.), Matthias Oberst (Nuremberg, Germany), Harald Gert Helmut Neubauer (Erlangen, Germany) and Thomas Schweiger (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector includes a plurality of sensing elements, section circuitry that communicatively couples a first set of sensing elements to an input of first signal processing circuitry, and a switch network that connects sets of sensing elements. Inter-element switches m...