US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Microscopy on Nov. 3 for "Method of operating an ion beam source, ion beam source and computer program" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,027, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method of operating an ion beam source, ion beam source and computer program" was invented by Ramu Pradip (Heidenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating an ion beam source comprises operating the ion beam source in a beam generation mode and operating the ion beam source in a decontamination mode. Operating in beam generation mode includes generating an ion beam from ions emitted from a tip. Operating in decontamination mode includes supplying power to a heating wire to raise the temperature of the heating wire to a decontamination tempe...