ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,632, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Coupling mirror of an optical inspection system" was invented by Menachem Lapid (Hashmonaim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for scanning a surface including: an illumination system providing inspection light for illumination of a field of view (FOV) on an inspection object to produce a reflected light beam from the inspection object; an objective lens arrangement, located between the illumination system and the surface; a light separator: having a reflective surface arranged: to direct the inspection light towards the FOV; and to...