ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,823, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).
"Ablating material for an object in a particle beam device" was invented by Holger Doemer (Bopfingen, Germany), Michele Nicoletti (Munich) and Andreas Schmaunz (Oberkochen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ablating a material from a material unit and arranging the material on an object in a particle beam apparatus includes feeding a particle beam with charged particles onto the material. The material is arranged on the material unit and/or the material unit is formed from the material. The material is ablatable from the material unit. The materi...