ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,673, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, lithography apparatus, and article manufacturing method" was invented by Yuichiro Morikuni (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for generating a control signal for controlling a control target includes a plurality of neural networks, and a selector configured to select, from the plurality of neural networks, a neural network to be used to generate the control signal, wherein each of the plurality of neural networks is selected by the selector to be used in execution of one corresponding control pattern among a plurality of cont...