ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,900, issued on April 14, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).
"Artificial intelligence-enabled preparation end-pointing" was invented by Thomas Gary Miller (Portland, Ore.), John F. Flanagan IV (Hillsboro, Ore.), Brian Routh Jr. (Beaverton, Ore.), Richard Young (Beaverton, Ore.), Brad Larson (Portland, Ore.) and Aditee Shrotre (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for implementing artificial intelligence enabled preparation end-pointing are disclosed. An example method at least includes obtaining an image of a surface of a sample, the sample including a plurality of features, analyzing the image t...