Patents by Inventor Robbert Jaap Van Der Kruk

Robbert Jaap Van Der Kruk 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).

  • Method for performing a software process, controller and lithographic apparatus
    Patent number: 8112752
    Abstract: A method for performing a software process, such as a real time software process, is disclosed, the process having a plurality of tasks, the method including starting a task of the plurality of tasks of the process, monitoring a progress of the started task, comparing the progress with a desired progress, if the progress does not meet the desired progress, skipping at least a part of a task of the plurality of tasks, and performing the process making use of an outcome of the tasks which have been completed. The monitoring of the progress may be performed upon completion of the task or at a predetermined moment in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Theodorus Guillielmus Maria Van De Ven, Robbert Jaap Van Der Kruk