Patents by Inventor Alan Stinson
Alan Stinson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230143962Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for dual-pass amplification of laser beams along a common beam path. An example method can include generating a first laser beam and a second laser beam. Subsequently, the example method can include performing dual-pass amplification of the first laser beam and the second laser beam along a common beam path. In some aspects, the first laser beam can include a first wavelength, the second laser beam can include a second wavelength different from the first wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Rostislav Rokitski, Philip M. Conklin, Cory Alan Stinson, Alexander Anthony Schafgans, Christoffel Johannes Liebenberg
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Patent number: 10681796Abstract: A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Michael Leslie Price, Cory Alan Stinson, Mark Joseph Mitry
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Patent number: 10681797Abstract: A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Michael Leslie Price, Cory Alan Stinson, Mark Joseph Mitry
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Patent number: 10663866Abstract: An optical source for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography tool includes a light-generation system including a light-generation module; an optical amplifier including a gain medium associated with a gain band, the gain medium configured to amplify light having a wavelength in the gain band; and a wavelength-based optical filter system on a beam path between the light-generation module and the optical amplifier, the wavelength-based optical filter system including at least one optical element configured to allow light having a wavelength in a first set of wavelengths to propagate on the beam path and to remove light having a wavelength in a second set of wavelengths from the beam path, the first set of wavelengths and the second set of wavelengths including different wavelengths in the gain band of the optical amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Alexander Anthony Schafgans, Igor Vladimirovich Fomenkov, Yezheng Tao, Rostislav Rokitski, Robert Jay Rafac, Daniel John William Brown, Cory Alan Stinson
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Patent number: 10606096Abstract: A system for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source includes a light-generation system configured to emit one or more light beams onto a beam path; one or more optical amplifiers, each of the one or more amplifiers including a gain medium on the beam path, each gain medium being configured to amplify the one or more light beams to produce one or more amplified light beams; and one or more diffractive optical elements on the beam path, where each of the one or more diffractive optical elements has a plurality of focal lengths, and each focal length of the diffractive optical element is associated with a particular polarization state.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Cory Alan Stinson, Philip M. Conklin
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Publication number: 20190387603Abstract: A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Michael Leslie Price, Cory Alan Stinson, Mark Joseph Mitry
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Publication number: 20190069386Abstract: A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Michael Leslie Price, Cory Alan Stinson, Mark Joseph Mitry
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Patent number: 10149375Abstract: A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Michael Leslie Price, Cory Alan Stinson, Mark Joseph Mitry
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Publication number: 20180246338Abstract: A system for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source includes a light-generation system configured to emit one or more light beams onto a beam path; one or more optical amplifiers, each of the one or more amplifiers including a gain medium on the beam path, each gain medium being configured to amplify the one or more light beams to produce one or more amplified light beams; and one or more diffractive optical elements on the beam path, where each of the one or more diffractive optical elements has a plurality of focal lengths, and each focal length of the diffractive optical element is associated with a particular polarization state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Cory Alan Stinson, Philip M. Conklin
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Publication number: 20180081280Abstract: An optical source for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography tool includes a light-generation system including a light-generation module; an optical amplifier including a gain medium associated with a gain band, the gain medium configured to amplify light having a wavelength in the gain band; and a wavelength-based optical filter system on a beam path between the light-generation module and the optical amplifier, the wavelength-based optical filter system including at least one optical element configured to allow light having a wavelength in a first set of wavelengths to propagate on the beam path and to remove light having a wavelength in a second set of wavelengths from the beam path, the first set of wavelengths and the second set of wavelengths including different wavelengths in the gain band of the optical amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Alexander Anthony Schafgans, Igor Vladimirovich Fomenkov, Yezheng Tao, Rostislav Rokitski, Robert Jay Rafac, Daniel John William Brown, Cory Alan Stinson
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Publication number: 20180077786Abstract: A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Michael Leslie Price, Cory Alan Stinson, Mark Joseph Mitry
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Patent number: 9904068Abstract: A system for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source includes a light-generation system configured to emit one or more light beams onto a beam path; one or more optical amplifiers, each of the one or more amplifiers including a gain medium on the beam path, each gain medium being configured to amplify the one or more light beams to produce one or more amplified light beams; and one or more diffractive optical elements on the beam path, where each of the one or more diffractive optical elements has a plurality of focal lengths, and each focal length of the diffractive optical element is associated with a particular polarization state.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Cory Alan Stinson, Philip M. Conklin
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Patent number: 7121218Abstract: A convertible bow arrangement for a boat, permitting the bow of the boat to be converted from a flush deck configuration to an open bow configuration. A deck extension is positioned over a footwell in the flush deck configuration and folded beneath and stowed under a forward hatch in the open bow configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Stratos Boats, Inc.Inventors: Alan Stinson, Greg Strahm
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Publication number: 20060090682Abstract: A convertible bow arrangement for a boat, permitting the bow of the boat to be converted from a flush deck configuration to an open bow configuration. A deck extension is positioned over a footwell in the flush deck configuration and folded beneath and stowed under a forward hatch in the open bow configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2004Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Alan Stinson, Greg Strahm
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Patent number: 6948444Abstract: A system for reinforcing a boat hull is disclosed herein. The system includes two longitudinal supports positioned on opposite sides of a keel of the hull. A bridge structure extends across the keel and interconnects the longitudinal supports.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Stratos Boats, Inc.Inventor: Alan Stinson
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Patent number: 6892664Abstract: A boat having a hull, a driver seat, an interior wall, a motor, a shifter and a shifter cover is disclosed herein. The shifter cover is positioned at a location between the driver seat and the interior wall. The shifter cover defines a shifter slot. The shifter is coupled to the motor and includes a shifter member that extends from beneath the shifter cover upwardly through the shifter slot. The shifter member includes a handle positioned above the shifter cover.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Stratos Boats, Inc.Inventor: Alan Stinson
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Publication number: 20040226500Abstract: A system for reinforcing a boat hull is disclosed herein. The system includes two longitudinal supports positioned on opposite sides of a keel of the hull. A bridge structure extends across the keel and interconnects the longitudinal supports.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventor: Alan Stinson
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Patent number: D516005Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Stratos Boats, Inc.Inventor: Alan Stinson
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Patent number: D524706Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2003Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Stratos Boats, Inc.Inventor: Alan Stinson
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Patent number: D499049Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Stratos Boats, Inc.Inventor: Alan Stinson