ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,012, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FEI COMPANY (Hillsboro, Ore.).
"Method of sample preparation and analysis" was invented by Michal Valik (Neslovice, Czech Republic), Petr Malek (Domasov, Czech Republic), John Mitchels (Klobouky u Brna, Czech Republic), Frantisek Vaske (Brno, Czech Republic), Veronika Vrbovska (Brno, Czech Republic) and Milos Hovorka (Brno, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of sample preparation and analysis and a sample holder that may be used in said method."
The patent was filed on July 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/360,232.
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