ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,968, issued on April 14, was assigned to Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (Oberkochen, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for processing a sample" was invented by Christof Baur (Oberkochen, Germany), Julia Weber (Oberkochen, Germany), Dominik Schnoor (Oberkochen, Germany), Maximilian Rumler (Oberkochen, Germany), Johannes Schoeneberg (Oberkochen, Germany) and Kinga Kornilov (Oberkochen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes a method for processing a sample with a processing arrangement, comprising the steps of: taking up a particle adhering on a sample surface of the sample with a measuring tip of the processing arrangement;...