US Patent Issued to FEI on Oct. 6 for "Container lid" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,982, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Container lid" was invented by Nestor Hernandez Rodriguez (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Mathijs Petrus Wilhelmus van den Boogaard (Oirschot, Netherlands), Martijn Roger La Grange (Oisterwijk, Netherlands) and Ross David Savage (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed for container lids, suitable for use in reliable automated handling and transport of lamella carriers used for transmission electron microscopy samples, or similar light or thin objects. A lid is for use with a container having one or more cavities that can be ...