ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,996, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).
"EELS auto-alignment using full image simulation" was invented by Peter Christiaan Tiemeijer (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Alexander Henstra (Utrecht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automatically tuning an EELS spectrometer according to the present disclosure include obtaining an initial measurement of an EELS spectrum, generating an simulated EELS spectrum fit to the initial measurement of the EELS spectrum, and estimating one or more values of one or more aberration parameters based on the simulated EELS spectrum. Then, using the v...