ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,233, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, system, lithography apparatus, article manufacturing method, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Yasuhiro Watanabe (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a control apparatus for controlling a controlled apparatus connected via a network, including a generation unit configured to generate instruction data for controlling the controlled apparatus, a communication unit configured to transmit/receive, in every predetermined cycle, via the network, a data frame including one of the instruction data gener...