ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,075, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Stack alignment techniques" was invented by Arjen Benjamin Storm (Delft, Netherlands), Johan Frederik Cornelis Van Gurp (Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands), Johannes Cornelis Jacobus De Langen (Delft, Netherlands), Aaron Yang-Fay Ayal (Roosendaal, Netherlands), Michiel Matthieu Bruinink (Rijswijk, Netherlands), Christiaan Ruben Van Den Berg ('s-Gravenzande, Netherlands), Christiaan Otten (IJsselstein, Netherlands), Laura Dinu Gurtler (Delft, Netherlands) and Marc Smits (Pijnacker, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a su...