ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,145, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
"Connection assembly" was invented by Ivo Vanderhallen (Leende, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a connection assembly (24) for a high-pressure liquid metal supply system used in an EUV light source comprising a monolithic block, wherein the monolithic block includes: at least one connection (21) for connecting to a reservoir (18,19) configured to hold liquid metal; interior passages (25) configured to fluidly connect the at least one connection with at least two liquid metal outlets/inlets (22, 23); at least two fre...