ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,246, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FEI Co. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Device line understanding using composed templates" was invented by John Flanagan (Hillsboro, Ore.), Hayley Johanesen (Portland, Ore.), Lucas Paul Winiarski (Portland, Ore.) and Christopher Hakala (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, components, methods, and algorithms for generating template information are described. a computer-implemented method includes receiving microscope image data, detecting a feature in the microscope image data, receiving feature template data describing a grouping of features including the feature, detecting the groupin...