US Patent Issued to ASML NETHERLANDS on June 17 for "Method for generating broadband radiation and associated broadband source and metrology device" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,541, issued on June 17, was assigned to ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for generating broadband radiation and associated broadband source and metrology device" was invented by Yongfeng Ni (Waalre, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating broadband output radiation and associated broadband radiation source. The method includes generating pulses of input radiation having a duration between 50 fs and 400 fs and having a rise time of less than 60 fs; and exciting a working medium within a hollow core fiber with the pulses of input radiation."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2021, under A...