ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,648, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Discharging a region of a sample" was invented by Roey Levy (Rehovot, Israel), Shachar Faigenblat (Rehovot, Israel) and Alexander Goldenshtein (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for discharging a region of a sample, the system includes (i) illumination optics that is configured to discharge the region by illuminating the region of the sample with a laser pulse during an illumination iteration; and (ii) a timing circuit that is configured to trigger the illumination iteration to occur at a timing that is based on one or mo...