US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss SMT, Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy on May 12 for "Imaging optical arrangement to image an object illuminated by X-rays" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,090, issued on May 12, was assigned to Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (Oberkochen, Germany) and Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy Inc. (Dublin, Calif.).

"Imaging optical arrangement to image an object illuminated by X-rays" was invented by Johannes Ruoff (Aalen, Germany), Juan Atkinson Mora (Hillsboro, Ore.), Thomas Anthony Case (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Heiko Feldmann (Aalen, Germany), Christoph Hilmar Graf vom Hagen (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany), Thomas Matthew Gregorich (Milpitas, Calif.) and Gerhard Krampert (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging optical arrangement serves to image an object illuminated by X-rays. An imaging opt...