US Patent Issued to FEI on Aug. 11 for "Blotting material with profiled region, method of manufacturing same, and uses thereof" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,197, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Blotting material with profiled region, method of manufacturing same, and uses thereof" was invented by Ivanka Spee (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jeroen Bresser (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Adrian Koh (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Maarten Kuijper (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Mathijs Petrus Wilhelmus van den Boogaard (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a blotting material comprising a profiled region that has a portion configured to protrude at least partially into a space created within a boundary formed by the rim of a holder ...