US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss SMT on Dec. 16 for "Assembly having a decoupling joint for mechanically mounting an element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,541, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (Oberkochen, Germany).

"Assembly having a decoupling joint for mechanically mounting an element" was invented by Philipp Weishaupt (Augsburg, Germany), David Borowski (Koesching, Germany), Thomas Stuebler (Haunsfeld, Germany), Roland Gischa (Bibertal, Germany) and Matthias Kestel (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly comprises an element that is mechanically stressed during operation or transport in at least one loading direction, and a decoupling joint for mechanically mounting the element. The decoupling joint effects at least partial decoupling in t...