ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,280, issued on July 7, was assigned to AIRSEM TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Charged particle beam devices and membrane assemblies useful therein" was invented by Jenny Shklovsky (Kfar Saba, Israel), Peter Beker (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Vladimir Wainstein (Rishon Le Zion, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charged particle beam device, comprising a charged particle beam source situated in a first-pressure environment, a sample support operative to support a sample situated in a second-pressure environment, the second-pressure environment having a higher pressure than the first-pressure environment, and a membrane assembly ...