US Patent Issued to FEI, Oxford University Innovation on March 3 for "Method and apparatus of preparing a sample of one or more molecule(s) for imaging with a cryo-electron microscope" (British, Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,116, issued on March 3, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Oxford University Innovation Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus of preparing a sample of one or more molecule(s) for imaging with a cryo-electron microscope" was invented by Albert Konijnenberg (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Tim Esser (Oxford, Great Britain), Paul Fremdling (Dresden, Germany), Joe Gault (Oxford, Great Britain) and Stephan Rauschenbach (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of preparing a sample of one or more molecule(s) for imaging with a cryo-electron microscope. The method comp...